The division between Elder Futhark, Younger Futhark and Anglo-Saxon runes are well-established and useful categories, but they are connected by a continuum of gradual development, inscriptions using a mixture of older and newer forms of runes, etc. For this reason, the runic Unicode block is of very limited usefulness in representing of historical inscriptions and is better suited for ...

Elder Futhark Younger Futhark Anglo-Saxon futhorc: ISO 15924; ISO 15924: Runr (211), Runic: Unicode; Unicode alias. Runic: ... The Anglo-Saxon rune poem gives the following characters and names: ... use a runic font for in-game signs and printed maps and booklets, and Metagaming's The Fantasy Trip used rune-based cipher for clues and jokes ...

Anglo-Saxon runes or Anglo-Frisian runes are runes that were used by the Anglo-Saxons and Medieval Frisians (collectively called Anglo-Frisians) as an alphabet in their native writing system, recording both Old English and Old Frisian (Old English: rūna, ᚱᚢᚾᚪ, "rune").Today, the characters are known collectively as the futhorc (ᚠᚢᚦᚩᚱᚳ, fuþorc) from the sound values of the ...

Anglo-Saxon Futhorc. Long Branch variant of the Younger Futhark, also known as Danish runes, is the normal or standard representation of the Younger Futhark, which began to develop at the end of the 8th century and was accepted by the 10th century in the whole of Scandinavia. Short Twig variant of the Younger Futhark is also known as Rök runes ...

A simple and easy to use rune translator that allows you to write in the Norse Runes. Your options are Elder Futhark, younger Futhark or Anglo Saxon runes, and to make it easy for you, I've made a visual list of tips to help you create better Norse Rune translations. Welcome to Einarr's Journey

BabelStone Runic is a generic Unicode runic font covering all runic characters in the Unicode Standard version 7.0. As this is a generic font, the glyph forms for some characters may not be ideal for some contexts, but is should be a useful fallback font for Runic text. ... Generic Runes Elder Futhark Younger Futhark Staveless Runes Dotted ...

Well you are in luck! My wife Elin ( @Mooselady ), who is a BA in Cultural Heritage and BA in Archaeology, currently studying for her Masters from the University of Göteborg, Sweden has compiled a long blog post on the basics of runes. The article features numerous pictures and examples, all the theories how runes reached the Germanic people and Scandinavia, the names of the runes and rune poems.

The Anglo-Saxon rune poem (Cotton Otho B.x.165) has the following runes, listed with their Unicode glyphs, their names, their transliterations, and their approximate phonetic values in IPA notation: The first 24 of these directly continue the Elder Futhark letters, extended by five additional runes, representing additional vowels ( á, æ, ý, ia, ea ), comparable to the five forfeda of the ...

The 24 runes of the Elder Futhark were used in Scandinavia until c. 700 AD. Its runes were adapted or combined until only 16 remained to be used there during the Viking period. In Germania, Frisia and particularly in Britain, the runes of the Elder Futhark and the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc were in continuous usage and more were added.

Runic inscriptions are mostly found on jewellery, weapons, stones and other objects. Very few examples of Runic writing on manuscripts have survived. Younger Futhork Younger Futhork or "Normal Runes" gradually evolved Elder Futhark over a period of many years and stabilized by about 800 A.D., the beginning of the Viking Age. It was the