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  2. Elder Futhark - Wikipedia

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    The Elder Futhark (or Fuþark), also known as the Older Futhark, Old Futhark, or Germanic Futhark, is the oldest form of the runic alphabets. It was a writing system used by Germanic peoples for Northwest Germanic dialects in the Migration Period .

  3. Svingerud Runestone - Wikipedia

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    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]

  4. Category:Elder Futhark - Wikipedia

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    Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Anglo-Saxon runes (19 P) E. Elder Futhark inscriptions (1 C, 39 P) Y. Younger Futhark (4 C, 4 P) Pages in category "Elder Futhark"

  5. Category:Elder Futhark inscriptions - Wikipedia

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    Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Pages in category "Elder Futhark inscriptions" ... Alemannic runic inscriptions;

  6. Bergakker inscription - Wikipedia

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    Visual copy of the Elder Futhark runes on the inscription. The Bergakker inscription is an Elder Futhark inscription discovered on the scabbard of a 5th-century sword.It was found in 1996 in the Dutch town of Bergakker, in the Betuwe, a region once inhabited by the Batavi. [1]

  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. Runic inscriptions - Wikipedia

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    Its date is very early (3rd century) and it shows a mixture of runic and Latin letters, reading TᛁᛚᚨᚱᛁDᛊ or TIᛚᚨRIDS (the i, r and s letters being identical in the Elder Futhark and Latin scripts), and may thus reflect a stage of development before the runes became fixed as a separate script in its own right.

  9. Anglo-Saxon runes - Wikipedia

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    The futhorc was a development from the older co-Germanic 24-character runic alphabet, known today as Elder Futhark, expanding to 28 characters in its older form and up to 34 characters in its younger form. In contemporary Scandinavia, the Elder Futhark developed into a shorter 16-character alphabet, today simply called Younger Futhark.