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Runes: A Handbook

Runes: A Handbook

Barnes, Michael P.

Hardcover

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ISBN10: 1843837781
ISBN13: 9781843837787
Publisher: Boydell Pr
Published: Sep 20 2012
Pages: 256
Weight: 1.50
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.90 Depth: 9.80
Language: English
Offers a full introduction to and survey of runes and runology: their history, how they were used, and their interpretation.

Runes, often considered magical symbols of mystery and power, are in fact an alphabetic form of writing. Derived from one or more Mediterranean prototypes, they were used by Germanic peoples to write different kinds of Germanic language, principally Anglo-Saxon and the various Scandinavian idioms, and were carved into stone, wood, bone, metal, and other hard surfaces; types of inscription range from memorials to the dead, through Christian prayers and everyday messages to crude graffiti. First reliably attested in the second century AD, runes were in due course supplanted by the roman alphabet, though in Anglo-Saxon England they continued in use until the early eleventh century, inScandinavia until the fifteenth (and later still in one or two outlying areas).

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