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When Vikings sailed the North Sea in the 10th century, they recorded their exploits in runes, but that ancient alphabet is ...
A runestone is a large stone carved with runic inscriptions — usually in the early Germanic alphabet known as the futhark.
This was the first language written in runic inscriptions, or the ancient Scandinavian alphabet containing about 24 letters and referred to as Elder Futhark. The oldest such writing yet discovered ...
Between 500 A.D, and the start of the Viking Age proper in 800 A.D., the elder futhark (alphabet) of 24 runes gradually evolved into a leaner 16-character futhark.
These runestones, written in the younger futhark alphabet (with only sixteen runes, which evolved in parallel to the Old Norse language), are concentrated mostly in the province of Uppland, although ...
Plus, the early futhark alphabet does not have the letter C. 'Us could be read as "us" but I thought it might be the west-of-Scotland vernacular "yous", meaning you plural.
The runic alphabet, or Futhark, gets its name from its first six sounds (f, u, th, a, r, k), much like the word 'alphabet' derives from the first two letters of the Greek alphabet, alpha and beta ...
The word 'alphabet' comes from the Greek letters 'alpha' and 'beta'. Similarly, the runic alphabet is known as the 'futhark', from the first six runes.
Archeologists in Norway have discovered the world’s oldest dated runestone, which features inscriptions that are up to 2,000 years old.
The Vikings left all of these wonderful runestones — they had erected stones with carved letters in the Elder Futhark alphabet, which is the 1000-year-old alphabet from Sweden,” she explained ...