An Introduction to English Runes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook An Introduction to English Runes write by Raymond Ian Page. This book was released on 2006. An Introduction to English Runes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Introduction to the use of runes as a practical script for a variety of purposes in Anglo-Saxon England. 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 the ways in which it developed, up until its decline at the end of the Anglo-Saxon period. It discusses how runes were used for informal and day-to-day purposes, on formal monuments, as decorative letters in prestigious manuscripts, for owners' or makers' names on everyday objects, perhaps even in private letters. For the first time, the book presents, together with earlier finds, the many runic objects discovered over the last twenty years, with a range of inscriptions on bone, metal and stone, even including tourists' scratched signatures found on the pilgrimage routes through Italy. It gives an idea of the immense range of informationon language and social history contained in these unique documents. The late R.I. PAGE was former Professor of Anglo-Saxon in the University of Cambridge.
Runes
Runes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Runes write by Ralph Warren Victor Elliott. This book was released on 1980. Runes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Runes
Runes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Runes write by Michael P. Barnes. This book was released on 2012. Runes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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). This book provides an accessible, general account of runes and runic writing from their inception to their final demise. It also covers modern uses of runes, and deals with such topics as encoded texts, rune names, how runic inscriptions were made, runological method, and the history of runic research. A final chapter explains where those keen to see runic inscriptions can most easily find them. Professor MICHAEL P, BARNES is Emeritus Professor of Scandinavian Studies, University College London.
Runes
Runes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Runes write by Raymond Ian Page. This book was released on 1987. Runes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Describes the ancient writing system used by Northmen, Anglo-Saxons, and Vikings, and the inscriptions found in Scandanavia, the British Isles, and North America.
Norwegian Runes and Runic Inscriptions
Norwegian Runes and Runic Inscriptions - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Norwegian Runes and Runic Inscriptions write by Terje Spurkland. This book was released on 2005. Norwegian Runes and Runic Inscriptions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "This book presents an accessible account of the Norwegian examples throughout the period of their use. The runic inscriptions are discussed not only from a linguistic point of view but also as sources of information on Norwegian history and culture". --BOOKJACKET.
