runic script
Ancient Norse alphabet
Runic script is a writing system used by Germanic peoples from roughly the 2nd to 15th centuries, consisting of angular letters called runes carved into wood, stone, or metal.
The characters' straight lines suited carving into hard surfaces.
Runic inscriptions appear on monuments, weapons, and jewelry across Scandinavia, Britain, and Germanic Europe.
The term now evokes ancient mystery or magical writing: The symbols looked like runic script.
- Elder FutharkFirst Germanic runic alphabet
- phonemeMinimal distinctive sound unit
- magicSupernatural or illusory power
- stone carvingSculptural work in rock
- carved in stoneFixed beyond alteration
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