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Conopsis nasus (Günther, 1858) Conopsis nasus, the largenose earth snake, is a species of nonvenomous snake in the family Colubridae. The species is found in Mexico. [2]
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").
Coregonus nasus, broad whitefish; Lamna nasus, porbeagle, a shark; Menticirrhus nasus, highfin king croaker, (see kingcroaker) Nematalosa nasus, Bloch's gizzard shad (see Clupeidae) Ostracion nasus, shortnose boxfish (see boxfish) Parodon nasus (syn: Parodon tortuosus), freshwater fish (see Characidae) Typhlonus nasus, a cusk-eel (see Ophidiidae)
The common nase (Chondrostoma nasus) is a European potamodromous cyprinid fish. It is often simply called the nase , but that can refer to any species of its genus Chondrostoma . Another name is sneep .
After the spread of Christianity in these regions, and the increase in runic literacy that followed, runes were used for record-keeping and found on things like weapons, ivory, and coins. [ 6 ] Most early medieval Scandinavians were probably literate in runes , and most people probably carved messages on pieces of bone and wood. [ 2 ]
Various forms of the haglaz rune in the Elder Futhark *Haglaz or *Hagalaz is the reconstructed Proto-Germanic name of the h-rune ᚺ, meaning "hail" (the precipitation). In the Anglo-Saxon futhorc, it is continued as hægl, and, in the Younger Futhark, as ᚼ hagall. The corresponding Gothic letter is 𐌷 h, named hagl.
The rune may have been an original innovation, or it may have been adapted from the Rhaetic's alphabet's N. [ 1 ] The valkyrie Sigrdrífa in Sigrdrífumál talks (to Sigurd ) about the rune as a beer-rune and that "You should learn beer-runes if you don’t want another man’s wife to abuse your trust if you have a tryst.
The Svingerud Runestone is a sandstone object featuring Elder Futhark inscriptions found in a grave west of Oslo, Norway.Radiocarbon dating indicates that the grave and the runestone date to between 1 and 250 CE, during the Roman Iron Age, making it the oldest datable runestone known in the world, and potentially the oldest known runic inscription. [1]