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  2. Runic (Unicode block) - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  3. Rune (video game) - Wikipedia

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    Rune shipped for Windows on October 27, 2000. [2] A playable demo was released at the same time. [10] Developed by Westlake Interactive, the Mac OS version followed on December 4, 2000. [11] [12] Loki Software released a Linux port on June 21, 2001. [13] In October 2001, Rune was re-released with the HOV expansion included, as Rune Gold.

  4. Younger Futhark - Wikipedia

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    The j rune was rendered superfluous due to Old Norse sound changes, but was kept with the new sound value of a. The old z rune was kept (transliterated in the context of Old Norse as ʀ) but moved to the end of the rune row in the only change of letter ordering in Younger Futhark. The third ætt was reduced by four runes, losing the e, ŋ, o ...

  5. Rune - Wikipedia

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    A rune is a letter in a set of related alphabets, known as runic rows, runic alphabets or futharks (also, see futhark vs runic alphabet), native to the Germanic peoples of the 1st millennium and beyond. Runes were used to write Germanic languages (with some exceptions) before they adopted the Latin alphabet, and for

  6. Old Turkic script - Wikipedia

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    Download QR code; Print/export ... Turkic runes) was the alphabet ... Since Windows 8 Unicode Old Turkic writing support was added in the Segoe font.

  7. Medieval runes - Wikipedia

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    The medieval runes, or the futhork, was a Scandinavian runic alphabet that evolved from the Younger Futhark after the introduction of stung (or dotted) runes at the end of the Viking Age. These stung runes were regular runes with the addition of either a dot diacritic or bar diacritic to indicate that the rune stood for one of its secondary ...

  8. Sigurd stones - Wikipedia

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    Above the snake pit panel is a runic inscription, which ends with five identical bind runes of which the last two are mirrored. The meaning of these five bind runes is not understood. The font is currently at the Swedish Museum of National Antiquities. svæn : kærðe <m> Old Norse transcription: Sveinn gerði m[ik](?). English translation:

  9. Gs 13 - Wikipedia

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    Gästrikland Runic Inscription 13 or Gs 13 is a runestone carved on red sandstone located in a church in Gävle, Gästrikland. It was carved in the 11th century by the runemaster Åsmund Kåresson. [1] The place name Tafeistaland (modern Swedish: Tavastland) in the inscription refers to a geographical region in Finland.