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 ...

The Rune Converter transforms Roman alphabet, as used in modern English, into five systems of Germanic runic writing: Elder Futhark, Anglo-Saxon runes, Long Branch Younger Futhark, Short Twig Younger Futhark and staveless runes (note that it does not translate the words themselves, it only converts letters into runes). A possibility to choose between these allows to establish a connection with ...

Runes are the letters in a set of related alphabets known as runic alphabets, which were used to write various Germanic languages before the adoption of the Latin alphabet and for specialised purposes thereafter. The Scandinavian variants are also known as futhark or fuþark (derived from their first six letters of the alphabet: F, U, Þ, A, R, and K); the Anglo-Saxon variant is futhorc or ...

Although in later Anglo-Saxon period alphabets included up to thirty-three sign, the traditional Germanic Futhark script consisted of twenty-four runes. These were divided into three "families" of eight runes, it was said that the numbers three and eight, had special magical powers. The three groups (aettir) were named after the Nordic gods Frey, Hagal and Tyr.

Anglo-Saxon runes are an extended version of Elder Futhark consisting of between 26 and 33 letters. It is thought that they were used to write Old English / Anglo-Saxon and Old Frisian from about the 5th century AD.

At the end of the 8th century an unknown rune-master reformed the Elder Futhark having reduced it to 16 runes. By the 10th century the new form of writing was accepted in the whole of Scandinavia. This variant of runic alphabet is known as the Younger Futhark. It is this set of runes that may be properly called Viking runes, since they were used by the Scandinavians during the Viking Age: The ...

Elder Futhark. Used around year 100 to 800. Anglo-Saxon runes. Used around year 400 to 1100. Younger Futhark. Used around year 900 to 1100. It has 2 variants, called Long-branch and short-twig. Medieval runes. Used around year 1100 to 1500. Note, there's also Tokien rune. It is based on Anglo-Saxon rune and used in the novel the Hobbit.

Runic Translator. Generate Random Sentence. Send. This translator turns every english letter and/or syllable into an equal runic version. Ever wanted ...

There was no such thing as Viking runes. Vikings were not a people, or a culture, but an occupation - the word means something along the lines of going pirating (it’s a bit unclear). Also the Germanic tribes were so mixed up that today historians ...

The Evolution of the Runic Alphabets: Elder Futhark, Anglo-Saxon Futhorc, and Younger Futhark Runes. Sep 23, 2018 Nov 13, 2019 All Natural Spirit. 23 September 2018, 03h45: Spring Equinox for the Southern Hemisphere. Today is the spring equinox – it is the day of the year where the hours of darkness and daylight are equal for both the Southern and Northern Hemispheres. Southern countries ...