An introduction to english runes
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- Publisher BOYDELL & BREWER LTD
- ISBN13 9780851159461
- ISBN10 085115946X
- Type Book
- Pages 249
- Published 2003
- Language English
- Bookbinding Rustic
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Medieval Literature EuropeanAn introduction to english runes
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Runes are quite frequently mentioned in modern writings, usually imprecisely as a source of mystic knowledge, power or insight. This book sets the record straight. It shows runes working as a practical script for a variety of purposes in early English times, among both indigenous Anglo-Saxons and incoming Vikings. In a scholarly yet readable way it examines the introduction of the runic alphabet (the futhorc) to England in the fifth and sixth centuries, the forms and values of its letters, and...
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