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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. Inscriptions are found on artifacts including
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See moreThe Elder Futhark (named after the initial phoneme of the first six rune names: F, U, Þ, A, R and K) has 24 runes, often arranged in three groups of eight runes; each group is called an ætt (pl. ættir). In the following table, each rune is given
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See moreEach rune most probably had a name, chosen to represent the sound of the rune itself according to the principle of acrophony.
The Old English names of...
See moreThe Elder Futhark is encoded in Unicode within the unified Runic range, 16A0–16FF. Among the freely available TrueType fonts
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See more• Bæksted, A (1952), Målruner og troldruner, Copenhagen.
• Elliott, Ralph Warren Victor (15 January 1981), Runes: An Introduction, Manchester University Press, ISBN...
See moreDerivation from Italic alphabets
The Elder Futhark runes are commonly believed to originate in the Old Italic scripts: either a North Italic...
See moreOld Futhark inscriptions were found on artifacts scattered between the Carpathians and Lappland, with the highest concentration in
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