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Armanen runes and their transcriptions. Armanen runes (or Armanen Futharkh) are 18 pseudo-runes, inspired by the historic Younger Futhark runes, invented by Austrian mysticist and Germanic revivalist Guido von List during a state of temporary blindness in 1902, and described in his Das Geheimnis der Runen ("The Secret of the Runes"), published as a periodical article in 1906, and as a ...
J. H. Looijenga, Runes around the North Sea and on the Continent AD 150–700, dissertation, Groningen University (1997). Odenstedt, Bengt, On the Origin and Early History of the Runic Script , Uppsala (1990), ISBN 91-85352-20-9 ; chapter 20: 'The position of continental and Anglo-Frisian runic forms in the history of the older futhark '
The rune may have been an original innovation, or it may have been adapted from the Rhaetic's alphabet's N. [ 1 ] The valkyrie Sigrdrífa in Sigrdrífumál talks (to Sigurd ) about the rune as a beer-rune and that "You should learn beer-runes if you don’t want another man’s wife to abuse your trust if you have a tryst.
Runes around the North Sea and on the Continent AD 150–700, dissertation, Groningen University. Looijenga, Tineke (2004). Texts and Contexts of the Oldest Runic Inscriptions. Leiden: Brill. ISBN 90-04-12396-2. Lüthi, Katrin (2004). "Von Þruþhild und Hariso: Alemannische und ältere skandinavische Runenkultur im Vergleich".
The distinction made by Unicode between character and glyph variant is somewhat problematic in the case of the runes; the reason is the high degree of variation of letter shapes in historical inscriptions, with many "characters" appearing in highly variant shapes, and many specific shapes taking the role of a number of different characters over the period of runic use (roughly the 3rd to 14th ...
The maðr rune is found regularly in Icelandic manuscripts, the fé rune somewhat less frequently, whilst in Anglo-Saxon manuscripts the runes mon, dæg, wynn and eþel are all used on occasion. These are some of the most functional of the rune names, occurring relatively often in written language, unlike the elusive peorð , for example, which ...
It was written in runes. Three rune stones have been found in the Faroe Islands: The Kirkjubøur stone, the Sandavágur stone, and the Fámjin stone. The latter, however, dates from the 16th century, proving that runes were used in addition to the Latin script well into the Catholic era.
A Runic calendar (also Rune staff or Runic almanac) is a perpetual calendar, variants of which were used in Northern Europe until the 19th century. A typical runic ...