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The Runic alphabets are a set of related alphabets using letters known as runes to write various Germanic languages prior to the adoption of the Latin alphabet and for specialized purposes thereafter. The Scandinavian variants are also known as Futhark (or fužark, derived from their first six letters of the alphabet: F, U, Ž, A, R, and K); the Anglo-Saxon variant as futhorc (due to sound changes undergone in Old English by the same six letters).
The earliest runic inscriptions date from around 150 AD, and the alphabet was generally replaced by the Latin alphabet with Christianization by around 700 AD in central Europe and by around 1100 AD in Scandinavia; however, the use of runes persisted for specialized purposes in Scandinavia, longest in rural Sweden until the early twentieth century (used mainly for decoration as runes in Dalarna and on Runic calendars).
The three best-known runic alphabets are the Elder Futhark (around 150 to 800 AD), the Anglo-Saxon runes (400 to 1100 AD), and the Younger Futhark (8001100). The Younger Futhark is further divided into the long-branch runes (also called Danish, although they were also used in Norway and Sweden), short-twig or Rök runes (also called Swedish-Norwegian, although they were also used in Denmark), and the Hälsinge runes. The Younger Futhark developed further into the Marcomannic runes, the Medieval runes (1100 AD to 1500 AD), and the Dalecarlian runes (around 1500 to 1800 AD).
The origins of the runic alphabet is uncertain. Many characters of the Elder Futhark bear a close resemblance to characters from the Latin alphabet. Other candidates are the 5th to 1st century BC Northern Italic alphabets: Lepontic, Rhaetic and Venetic, all of which are closely related to each other and descend from the Old Italic alphabet.
Background
The runes were introduced to the Germanic peoples in the 1st or 2nd century AD. (The oldest known runic inscription dates to around 150 AD and is found on a comb discovered in the bog of Vimose, Funen, Denmark. The inscription reads harja; a disputed candidate for a 1st century inscription is on the Meldorf fibula in southern Jutland). This period may correspond to the late Proto-Germanic or Common Germanic stage linguistically, with a continuum of dialects not yet clearly separated into the three branches of later centuries; North Germanic, West Germanic, and East Germanic.
No distinction is made in surviving runic inscriptions between long and short vowels, although such a distinction was certainly present phonologically in the spoken languages of the time. Similarly, there are no signs for labiovelars in the Elder Futhark (such signs were introduced in both the Anglo-Saxon futhorc and the Gothic alphabet as variants of p; see peorš.)
The name given to the signs, contrasting them with Latin or Greek letters, is attested on a 6th century Alammanic runestaff as runa, and possibly as runo on the 4th century Einang stone. The name is from a root run- (Gothic runa), meaning "secret" or "whisper" (In Finnish, the term runo was loaned to mean "poem").
OriginsMythologicalIn Norse mythology, the runic alphabet is attested to a divine origin. This is attested as early as on the Noleby Runestone from around 600 CE that reads Runo fahi raginakundo toj[e'k]a..., meaning "I prepare the suitable divine rune ..." and in an attestation from the 9th century on the Sparlösa Runestone which reads Ok raš runaR žaR ręgi[n]kundu, meaning "And interpret the runes of divine origin". More notably, in the Poetic Edda poem Hįvamįl, Stanza 80, the runes are also described as reginkunnr:
- Žat er žį reynt,
- er žś aš rśnum spyrr
- inum reginkunnum,
- žeim er geršu ginnregin
- ok fįši fimbulžulr,
- žį hefir hann bazt, ef hann žegir.
| That is now proved,what you asked of the runes,of the potent famous ones,which the great gods made,and the mighty sage stained,that it is best for him if he stays silent. | |
The poem Hįvamįl explains that the originator of the runes was the major god Odin. Stanza 138 describes how Odin received the runes through self-sacrifice:
- Veit ec at ec hecc vindga meiši a
- netr allar nķo,
- geiri vndažr oc gefinn Ošni,
- sialfr sialfom mer,
- a žeim meiži, er mangi veit, hvers hann af rótom renn.
| I know that I hung on a windy treenine long nights,wounded with a spear, dedicated to Odin,myself to myself,on that tree of which no man knows from where its roots run. |
In stanza 139, Odin continues:
- Viš hleifi mic seldo ne viž hornigi,
- nysta ec nižr,
- nam ec vp rvnar,
- opandi nam,
- fell ec aptr žašan.
| No bread did they give me nor a drink from a horn,downwards I peered;I took up the runes,screaming I took them,then I fell back from there. |
In the Poetic Edda poem Rķgsžula another origin is related of how the runic alphabet became known to man. The poem relates how Rķg, identified as Heimdall in the introduction, sired three sons, Churl (freeman) and Jarl (noble)) on human women. These sons became the ancestors of the three classes of men indicated by their names. When Jarl reached an age when he began to handle weapons and show other signs of nobility, Rig returned and, having claimed him as a son, taught him the runes. In 1555, the exiled Swedish archbishop Olaus Magnus recorded a tradition that a man named Kettil Runske had stolen three rune staffs from Odin and learned the runes and their magic.
HistoricalThe runes developed centuries after the Mediterranean alphabets from which they are potentially descended. There are some similarities to alphabets of Phoenician origin (Latin, Greek, Italic) that cannot possibly all be due to chance; an Old Italic alphabet, more particularly the Raetic alphabet of Bolzano, is often quoted as a candidate for the origin of the runes, with only five Elder Futhark runes ( e, ļ, j, ?, p) having no counterpart in the Bolzano alphabet (Mees 2000). This hypothesis is often denied by Scandinavian scholars, who usually favour a Latin origin for most or all of the runic letters (Odenstedt 1990; Williams 1996). An Old Italic or "North Etruscan" thesis is supported by the inscription on the Negau helmet dating to the 2nd century BC (Markey 2001). This is in a northern Etruscan alphabet, but features a Germanic name, Harigast. New archaeological evidence came from (Auronzo di Cadore).
The angular shapes of the runes are shared with most contemporary alphabets of the period used for carving in wood or stone. A peculiarity of the runic alphabet as compared to the Old Italic family is rather the absence of horizontal strokes. Runes were commonly carved on the edge of narrow pieces of wood. The primary grooves cut spanned the whole piece vertically, against the grain of the wood: curves are difficult to make, and horizontal lines get lost among the grain of the split wood. This vertical characteristic is also shared by other alphabets, such as the early form of the Latin alphabet used for the Duenos inscription.
The "West Germanic hypothesis" speculates on an introduction by West Germanic tribes. This hypothesis is based on claiming that the earliest inscriptions of around 200 AD, found in bogs and graves around Jutland (the Vimose inscriptions), exhibit word endings that, being interpreted by Scandinavian scholars to be Proto-Norse, are considered unresolved and having been long the subject of discussion. Inscriptions like wagnija, nižijo, and harija are supposed to incarnate tribenames, tentatively proposed to be Vangiones, the Nidensis and the Harii, tribes located in the Rhineland. Since names ending in -io reflect Germanic
morphology representing the Latin ending -ius, and the suffix -inius was reflected by Germanic -inio-, the question of the problematic ending -ijo in masculine Proto-Norse would be resolved by assuming Roman (Rhineland) influences, while "the awkward
ending -a of lagužewa (cf. Syrett 1994:44f.) can be solved by accepting the fact that the name may indeed be West Germanic;" however, it should be noted that in the early Runic period differences between Germanic languages are generally assumed to be minute. Another theory assumes a Northwest Germanic unity preceding the emergence of Proto-Norse proper from roughly the 5th century. An alternative suggestion explaining the impossibility to classify the earliest inscriptions as either North or West Germanic is forwarded by Č. A. Makaev, who assumes a "special runic koine", an early "literary Germanic" employed by the entire Late Common Germanic linguistic community after the separation of Gothic (2nd to 5th centuries), while the spoken dialects may already have been more diverse.
The formation of the Elder Futhark was complete by the early 5th century, with the Kylver Stone being the first evidence of the futhark ordering as well as of the p rune.
Common useSome later runic finds are on monuments, which often contain solemn inscriptions about people who died or performed great deeds. For a long time it was assumed that this kind of grand inscription was the primary use of runes, and that their use was associated with a certain societal class of rune carvers.
In the mid-1950s, however, about 600 inscriptions known as the Bryggen inscriptions were found in Bergen. These inscriptions were made on wood and bone, often in the shape of sticks of various sizes, and contained inscriptions of an everyday natureranging from name tags, prayers (often in Latin), personal messages, business letters and expressions of affection to bawdy phrases of a profane and sometimes even vulgar nature. Following this find, it is nowadays commonly assumed that at least in late use, Runic was a widespread and common writing system.
In the later Middle Ages, runes were also used in the Clog almanacs (sometimes called Runic staff, Prim or Scandinavian calendar) of Sweden. The authenticity of some monuments bearing Runic inscriptions found in Northern America is disputed, but most of them date from modern times.
Gothic runesTheories of the existence of separate Gothic runes have been advanced, even identifying them as the original alphabet from which the Futhark were derived, but these have little support in actual findings (mainly the spearhead of Kovel, with its right-to-left inscription, its T-shaped tiwaz and its rectangular dagaz). If there ever were genuinely Gothic runes, they were soon replaced by the Gothic alphabet. The letters of the Gothic alphabet, however, as given by the Alcuin manuscript (9th century), are obviously related to the names of the Futhark. The names are clearly Gothic, but it is impossible to say whether they are as old as, or even older than, the letters themselves. A handful of Elder Futhark inscriptions were found in Gothic territory, such as the 3rd to fifth century Ring of Pietroassa.
Later developmentAs Proto-Germanic evolved into its later language groups, the words assigned to the runes and the sounds represented by the runes themselves began to diverge somewhat, and each culture would either create new runes, rename or rearrange its rune names slightly, or even stop using obsolete runes completely, to accommodate these changes. Thus, the Anglo-Saxon futhorc has several runes peculiar to itself to represent diphthongs unique to (or at least prevalent in) the Anglo-Saxon dialect.
Nevertheless, the fact that the Younger Futhark has 16 runes, while the Elder Futhark has 24, is not fully explained by the some 600 years of sound changes that had occurred in the North Germanic language group. The development here might seem rather astonishing, since the younger form of the alphabet came to use fewer different rune signs at the same time as the development of the language led to a greater number of different phonemes than had been present at the time of the older futhark. For example, voiced and unvoiced consonants merged in script, and so did many vowels, while the number of vowels in the spoken language increased. From about 1100, this disadvantage was eliminated in the medieval runes, which again increased the number of different signs to correspond with the number of phonemes in the language.
Body of runic inscriptionsThe largest group of surviving Runic inscription are Viking Age Younger Futhark runestones, most commonly found in Sweden. Another large group are medieval runes, most commonly found on small objects, often wooden sticks. The largest concentration of runic inscriptions are the Bryggen inscriptions found in Bergen, more than 650 in total. Elder Futhark inscriptions number around 350, about 260 of which are from Scandinavia, of which about half are on bracteates. Anglo-Saxon futhorc inscriptions number around 100 items.
The following table lists the number of known inscriptions (in any alphabet variant) by geographical region:
| Area | Number of runic inscriptions |
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| Sweden | 3,432 | | Norway | 1,552 | | Denmark | 844 | | Scandinavian total | 5,826 | | Continental Europe except Scandinavia and Frisia | 80 | | Frisia | 20 | | The British Isles except Ireland | > 200 | | Greenland | > 100 | | Iceland | < 100 | | Ireland | 16 | | Faroes | 9 | | Non-Scandinavian total | > 500 | | Total | > 6,400 |
Elder Futhark
The Elder Futhark, used for writing Proto-Norse, consists of 24 runes that are often arranged in three groups of eight; each group is referred to as an Ętt. The earliest known sequential listing of the full set of 24 runes dates to around 400 AD and is found on the Kylver Stone in Gotland, Sweden.
Each rune most probably had a name, chosen to represent the sound of the rune itself. The names are, however, not directly attested for the Elder Futhark themselves. Reconstructed names in Proto-Germanic have been produced, based on the names given for the runes in the later alphabets attested in the rune poems and the linked names of the letters of the Gothic alphabet. The asterisk before the rune names means that they are unattested reconstructions. The 24 Elder Futhark runes are:
| Rune | Value | Proto-Germanic name | Meaning |
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| F | *fehu | "Money, wealth, cattle" | | U | *uruz | "Aurochs" (or ūram "water/slag"?) "strength, power" | | Ž]]) | ?*žurisaz | "Giant, monster" | | A | *ansuz | "Ęsir" | | R | *raido | "Ride, journey" | | K | Unknown, possibly *kaunan? | Old English cen "ulcer", Old Norse kaun "torch" | | G | *gebo | "Gift" | | W | *wunjo | "Joy" | | H | *hagalaz | "Hail (precipitation)" | | N | *naudiz | "Need" | | I | *isa- | "Ice" | | J/Y | *jera- | "Year, fruitful time of the year" | | EI | *i(h)waz/*Eihwaz | "Yew-tree" | | P | ?*perž- | Meaning unclear. | | Z, later R. | ?*algiz | Unclear, possibly "elk". | | S | *sowilo | "Sun" | | T | *tiwaz/*teiwaz | "The god Tiw (Later Tyr)" | | B | *berkanan | "Birch twig" | | E | *ehwaz | "Horse" | | M | *mannaz | "Man" | | L | *laguz | "Water" (or possibly *laukaz meaning "leek") | | NG | *ingwaz | "The god Ing" | | O | *ožila-/*ožala- | "Hereditary land, possession" | | D | *dagaz | "Day" |
Frisian and Anglo-Saxon runes
The futhorc are an extended alphabet, consisting of 29, and later even 33 characters. It was used probably from the 5th century onward. There are competing theories as to the origins of the Anglo-Saxon Fužorc. One theory proposes that it was developed in Frisia and later spread to England. Another holds that runes were introduced by Scandinavians to England where the fužorc was modified and exported to Frisia. Both theories have their inherent weaknesses and a definitive answer likely awaits more archaeological evidence. Futhorc inscriptions are found e.g. on the Thames scramasax, in the Vienna Codex, in Cotton Otho B.x and on the Ruthwell Cross.
The Anglo-Saxon rune poem gives the following characters and names: feoh, ur, thorn, os, rad, cen, gyfu, wynn, haegl, nyd, is, ger, eoh, peordh, eolh, sigel, tir, beorc, eh, mann, lagu, ing, ethel, daeg, ac, aesc, yr, ior, ear.
The expanded alphabet features the additional letters cweorth, calc, cealc and stan- these additional letters have only been found in manuscripts. Feoh, žorn, and sigel stood for [f], [ž], and [s] in most environments, but voiced to [v], [š], and [z] between vowels or voiced consonants. Gyfu and wynn stood for the letters yogh and wynn, which became [g] and [w] in Middle English.
Younger FužarkThe Younger Fužark, also called Scandinavian Fužark, is a reduced form of the Elder Futhark, consisting of only 16 characters. The reduction correlates with phonetic changes when Proto-Norse evolved into Old Norse. They are found in Scandinavia and Viking Age settlements abroad, probably in use from the 9th century onward. They are divided into long-branch (Danish) and short-twig (Swedish and Norwegian) runes. The difference between the two versions has been a matter of controversy. A general opinion is that the difference was functional; i.e. the long-branch runes were used for documentation on stone, whereas the short-branch runes were in everyday use for private or official messages on wood.
NamesThe Icelandic and Norwegian rune poems describe 16 runes, with the letter names fe ("wealth"), ur ("iron"/"rain"), Thurs, As/Oss, reidh ("ride"), kaun ("ulcer"), hagall ("hail"), naudhr/naud ("need"), is/iss ("ice"), ar ("plenty"), sol ("sun"), Tyr, bjarkan/bjarken ("birch"), madhr/madr ("man"), logr/lög ("water"), yr ("yew").
EvolutionIn the 7th century an intermediary form of runes between the Elder Futhark and the Younger Futhark appeared, but there are very few inscriptions. Two of them are the Stentoften Runestone and the Björketorp Runestone, where there is a new rune , having the same form as the h rune of the Younger Futhark, but it is used for an a-phoneme. The k rune, which looks like a y, is a transition form between and in the two futharks. A somewhat later example is the Snoldelev Stone where the transition is almost complete. It uses what is an early version of the Younger Futhark, but like the Björketorp runestone it still uses for an a-phoneme and it retains the h-rune, , of the elder futhark.
Long-branch runes The long-branch runes are the following signs:
Short-twig runes The short-twig runes (or Rök runes) are a simplified version of the long-branch runes, consisting of the following 16 signs:
Hälsinge runes (staveless runes) The Hälsinge runes are named after the traditional province of Hälsingland in Sweden, where they were first noted in modern times; however, they were used in a considerably larger area, and they were used between the 10th and 12th centuries. The runes seem to be a simplification of the SwedishNorwegian runes and lack vertical strokes, hence the name staveless. They cover the same set of letters as the other Younger Futhark alphabets. This variant has no assigned Unicode range (as of Unicode 4.0).
"Marcomannic runes"In a treatise called De Inventione Litterarum, preserved in 8th and 9th century manuscripts, mainly from the southern part of the Carolingian Empire, ascribed to Hrabanus Maurus, a runic alphabet consisting of a curious mixture of Elder Futhark with Anglo-Saxon futhorc is recorded. The alphabet is traditionally called "Marcomannic runes", but it has no connection with the Marcomanni and is rather an attempt of Carolingian scholars to represent all letters of the Latin alphabets with runic equivalents.
Medieval runesIn the Middle Ages, the Younger Futhark in Scandinavia was expanded, so that it once more contained one sign for each phoneme of the Old Norse language. Dotted variants of voiceless signs were introduced to denote the corresponding voiced consonants, or vice versa, voiceless variants of voiced consonants, and several new runes also appeared for vowel sounds. Inscriptions in medieval Scandinavian runes show a large number of variant rune forms, and some letters, such as s, c and z, were often used interchangeably.
Medieval runes were in use until the 15th century. Of the total number of Norwegian runic inscriptions preserved today, most are medieval runes. Notably, more than 600 inscriptions using these runes have been discovered in Bergen since the 1950s, mostly on wooden sticks (the so-called Bryggen inscriptions). This indicates that runes were in common use side by side with the Latin alphabet for several centuries. Indeed, some of the medieval runic inscriptions are actually in Latin language.
Dalecarlian runesAccording to Carl-Gustav Werner, "In the isolated province of Dalarna in Sweden a mix of runes and Latin letters developed."(Werner 2004, p. 7) The Dalecarlian runes came into use in the early 16th century and remained in some use up to the 20th century. Some discussion remains on whether their use was an unbroken tradition throughout this period or whether people in the 19th and 20th centuries learned runes from books written on the subject. The character inventory was mainly used for transcribing Elfdalian.
RunologyRunology is the study of the Runic alphabets, Runic inscriptions and their history. Runology forms a specialized branch of Germanic linguistics.
Modern useRunic alphabets have seen numerous usages in modern use, usually in association with or referencing Germanic paganism.
Occultism and Nazi GermanyThe pioneer of the Armanist branch of Ariosophy and one of the more important figures in esotericism in Germany and Austria in the late 19th and early 20th century was the Austrian occultist, mysticist and völkisch author Guido von List. In 1908, he published in Das Geheimnis der Runen ("The Secret of the Runes") a set of 18 so-called "Armanen runes", based on the Younger Futhark and runes of List's own introduction, which were allegedly revealed to him in a state of temporary blindness after a cataract operation on both eyes in 1902.
Runes have been used in Nazi symbolism by Nazis and Neo-Nazi groups that associate themselves with Germanic traditions, mainly the Sig, Eihwaz, Tiwaz, Odal and Algiz runes.
The fascination that runes seem to have exerted on the Nazis can be traced to Guido von List. His rune row, however, was later rejected by the Nazis in favor of the Wiligut runes created by the official Nazi Runologist Karl Maria Wiligut.
In Nazi contexts, the s rune is referred to as "Sig" (after List, probably from Anglo-Saxon Sigel). The "Wolfsangel", while not a rune historically, has the shape of List's "Gibor" rune; however, it should be noted that the shape of the Armanen rune "Gibor", as envisaged by Von List, is substantially different from the form currently used. Who exactly it is that changed the shape of Gibor is open to debate, but it appeared in its "new form" in the early 1930s. Nevertheless, if one examines Von List's original documents, one will find a somewhat different design, one that bares little resemblance to the "Wolfsangel".
Another modern-day runic row is the Uthark, commonly known through the work of the Swedish scholar and occultist Thomas Karlsson, founder of the Ordo Draconis et Atri Adamantis (or Dragon Rouge), who refers to them as the "night side of the runes". This runic row and theory had however been the subject of an earlier study by the Swedish philologist Sigurd Agrell.
J. R. R. TolkienIn J. R. R. Tolkien's novel The Hobbit, the Anglo-Saxon runes are used on a map to emphasize its connection to the Dwarves. They were also used in the initial drafts of The Lord of the Rings, but later were replaced by the Cirth rune-like alphabet invented by Tolkien.
Neopaganism and New AgeAs forms of Neopaganism can be quite different and have distinctive origins, recognition and usage of runes can vary considerably.
As with Germanic paganism in general, the runes are a major element in Germanic neopaganism used for a wide variety of purposes in varying senses of reconstructionism, depending on the type of group. The more academic adherents of Germanic neopaganism eschew any use of runes outside of writing and magic.
New Agers and some Wiccans may also sometimes use runes under various (generally non-reconstructive) conditions, such as divination.
Modern popular cultureHistorical and fictional runes appear commonly in modern popular culture, particularly in fantasy literature, video games, and various other forms of media. Runes also appear frequently in video games, such as RuneScape and Kameo.
UnicodeRunic alphabets are assigned Unicode range 16A016FF. This block is intended to encode all shapes of runic letters. Each letter is encoded only once, regardless of the number of alphabets in which it occurs.
The block contains 81 symbols: 75 runic letters (16A016EA), three punctuation marks
(Runic Single Punctuation 16EB ?, Runic Multiple Punctuation 16EC ? and Runic Cross Punctuation 16ED ?), and three runic symbols that are used in mediaeval calendar staves ("Golden number Runes", Runic Arlaug Symbol 16EE ?, Runic Tvimadur Symbol 16EF ? and Runic Belgthor Symbol 16F0 ?). Characters 16F116FF are unassigned (as of Unicode Version 5.0).
Unicode fonts that support the runic range include the following Free Unicode fonts; Junicode, Free Mono, and Caslon Roman and the following non-free Unicode fonts; Code2000, Everson Mono, and TITUS Cyberbit Basic.
Table of runic letters (U+16A0U+16EA):
| 16A0 | ? | fehu feoh fe f | 16B0 | ? | on | 16C0 | ? | dotted-n | 16D0 | ? | short-twig-tyr t | 16E0 | ? | ear | | 16A1 | ? | v | 16B1 | ? | raido rad reid r | 16C1 | ? | isaz is iss i | 16D1 | ? | d | 16E1 | ? | ior | | 16A2 | ? | uruz ur u | 16B2 | ? | kauna | 16C2 | ? | e | 16D2 | ? | berkanan beorc bjarkan b | 16E2 | ? | cweorth | | 16A3 | ? | yr | 16B3 | ? | cen | 16C3 | ? | jeran j | 16D3 | ? | short-twig-bjarkan b | 16E3 | ? | calc | | 16A4 | ? | y | 16B4 | ? | kaun k | 16C4 | ? | ger | 16D4 | ? | dotted-p | 16E4 | ? | cealc | | 16A5 | ? | w | 16B5 | ? | g | 16C5 | ? | long-branch-ar ae | 16D5 | ? | open-p | 16E5 | ? | stan | | 16A6 | ? | thurisaz thurs thorn | 16B6 | ? | eng | 16C6 | ? | short-twig-ar a | 16D6 | ? | ehwaz eh e | 16E6 | ? | long-branch-yr | | 16A7 | ? | eth | 16B7 | ? | gebo gyfu g | 16C7 | ? | iwaz eoh | 16D7 | ? | mannaz man m | 16E7 | ? | short-twig-yr | | 16A8 | ? | ansuz a | 16B8 | ? | gar | 16C8 | ? | pertho peorth p | 16D8 | ? | long-branch-madr m | 16E8 | ? | Icelandic-yr | | 16A9 | ? | os o | 16B9 | ? | wunjo wynn w | 16C9 | ? | algiz eolhx | 16D9 | ? | short-twig-madr m | 16E9 | ? | q | | 16AA | ? | ac a | 16BA | ? | haglaz h | 16CA | ? | sowilo s | 16DA | ? | laukaz lagu logr l | 16EA | ? | x | | 16AB | ? | aesc | 16BB | ? | haegl h | 16CB | ? | sigel long-branch-sol s | 16DB | ? | dotted-l | 16EB | ? | single punctuation | | 16AC | ? | long-branch-oss o | 16BC | ? | long-branch-hagall h | 16CC | ? | short-twig-sol s | 16DC | ? | ingwaz | 16EC | ? | multiple punctuation | | 16AD | ? | short-twig-oss o | 16BD | ? | short-twig-hagall h | 16CD | ? | c | 16DD | ? | ing | 16ED | ? | cross punctuation | | 16AE | ? | o | 16BE | ? | naudiz nyd naud n | 16CE | ? | z | 16DE | ? | dagaz daeg d | 16EE | ? | arlaug symbol | | 16AF | ? | oe | 16BF | ? | short-twig-naud n | 16CF | ? | tiwaz tir tyr t | 16DF | ? | othalan ethel o | 16EF | ? | tvimadur symbol | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 16F0 | ? | belgthor symbol |
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Other scripts, reminiscent of, based on or related to runes:
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