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An Introduction to English Runes by R.I. Page

• An Introduction to English Runes
• R.I. Page
• Page: 266
• Format: pdf, ePub, mobi, fb2
• ISBN: 9780851159461
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer, Limited

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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 the ways in which ...

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