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Craig · Posted: Mon Jul 12, 2010 10:33 pm Post subject: Runic alphabet

Being a history buff and also of Nordic descent, I've done some reading on the Old Norse language and "Viking" runes that my ancestors used. I changed my signature to a saying written in Elder Futhark runes (there are several runic alphabets that were used over the centuries; the Elder Futhark is, well, the eldest). I found a font called Junicode which includes regular characters plus most, if not all, the runes from the various alphabets as well as medieval characters. Cool stuff.

Here are a couple of links if you're interested. The Viking Answer Lady site gives good historic info on the ancient Norsemen a.k.a. Vikings (not all people in those days would have referred to themselves as such!):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rune

http://junicode.sourceforge.net/

http://www.vikinganswerlady.com/index.shtml
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