Encyclopedia - Runic Alphabet: Encyclopedia - Runic Alphabet
The Runic alphabets are a set of related alphabets using letters known as runes, formerly used to write Germanic languages, mainly in Sca...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Runic Alphabet: Encyclopedia Ii - Runic Alphabet - Unicode
Runic alphabets are assigned Unicode range 16A0–16FF. This block is intended to encode all shapes of runic letters. Each letter is enco...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Runic Alphabet: Encyclopedia Ii - Runic Alphabet - Unicode
Runic alphabets are assigned Unicode range 16A0–16FF. This block is intended to encode all shapes of runic letters. Each letter is enco...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Runic Alphabet: Encyclopedia Ii - Runic Alphabet - Background
The runes were introduced to, or invented by, the Germanic peoples in the 1st or 2nd century (The oldest known runic inscription dates to...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Runic Alphabet: Encyclopedia Ii - Runic Alphabet - Background
The runes were introduced to, or invented by, the Germanic peoples in the 1st or 2nd century (The oldest known runic inscription dates to...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anglo-saxon Futhorc: Encyclopedia - Anglo-saxon Futhorc
The Anglo-Saxon Futhorc are a runic alphabet, extended from the Elder Futhark, consisting of 29, and later even 33 characters. It was use...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Elder Futhark: Encyclopedia - Elder Futhark
The Elder Futhark (or Older Futhark, Old Futhark) are the oldest form of the runic alphabet, used by Germanic tribes for Proto-Norse and ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Vaksala Runestone: Encyclopedia - Vaksala Runestone
The Vaksala Runestone (U 961) is located in Vaksala parish near Uppsala, Sweden. It is one of the ca. 40 runestones made by the successfu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Rune Poem: Encyclopedia - Rune Poem
The rune poems list the letters of a runic alphabet with a short verse characterizing each one. Three different rune poems have been pres...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sol Goddess: Encyclopedia - Sol Goddess
Sol was, in Norse mythology, the goddess of the sun, a daughter of Mundilfari and Glaur and the wife of Glen. The corresponding Old Engli...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ogham: Encyclopedia - Ogham
Ogham (Old Irish Ogam) was an alphabet used primarily to represent Gaelic languages. Ogham is sometimes referred to as the "Celtic Tree A...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Viking Age: Encyclopedia - Viking Age
The Viking Age is the name of the period between 793 and 1066 AD in Scandinavia and Britain, following the Germanic Iron Age (and the Ven...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ur: Encyclopedia - Ur
UR, Ur, or ur can refer to several things: The City of Ur Úr (letter) ᚒ of the Ogham alphabet Ur (rune) ᚢ of the runic alphabets Ro...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cipher Runes: Encyclopedia - Cipher Runes
Cipher runes are the cryptographical replacement of the letters of the runic alphabet. Several schemes have been in use. The tent runes a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Younger Futhark: Encyclopedia - Younger Futhark
The Younger Fuþark, also called Scandinavian Fuþark, are a runic alphabet, a reduced form of the Elder Futhark, consisting of only 16 c...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Vadstena Bracteate: Encyclopedia - Vadstena Bracteate
The Vadstena bracteate (or rather bracteates since there are two of them) is a gold C-bracteate found in the earth at Vadstena in 1774. A...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - W: Encyclopedia - W
W is the twenty-third letter of the modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English is double-u. The earliest form of the letter W was a doubl...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ceirt Letter: Encyclopedia - Ceirt Letter
Ceirt (queirt) ᚊ is a letter of the Ogham alphabet, transcribed as Q. It expresses the Primitive Irish labiovelar phoneme. The 14th cen...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Eihwaz: Encyclopedia - Eihwaz
Eihwaz (or Eiwaz, Îgwaz) is the Proto-Germanic word for yew, and the reconstructed name of the rune ᛇ. Its is commonly transliterated ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Wolfsangel: Encyclopedia - Wolfsangel
The Wolfsangel (German for "wolf's hook") is a symbol which when used in the context of Nazi or Neo-Nazi organisations is described as lo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Velar Nasal: Encyclopedia - Velar Nasal
The velar nasal is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that rep...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gothic Alphabet: Encyclopedia Ii - Gothic Alphabet - The Letters
Middle Bronze Age 19-15th c. BC Proto-Canaanite 14th c. BC Ugaritic 13th c. BC Phoenician 11th c. BC Samaritan 6th c. BC Aramaic 9th c...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sol Goddess: Encyclopedia Ii - Sol Goddess - The Sol Rune
The s-rune, ᛋ, is called Sól after the goddess in the Younger Futhark, and Sigel in the Anglo-Saxon rune poem. The Elder Futhark varia...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ogham: Encyclopedia Ii - Ogham - The Alphabet
The Ogham alphabet consists of twenty distinct characters (feda), arranged in four series aicmí (plural of aicme "family"; compare aett)...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Elder Futhark: Encyclopedia Ii - Elder Futhark - The Alphabet
The Older Futhark (named after the initial phoneme of the first six rune names) consist of twenty-four runes, often arranged in three row...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Elder Futhark: Encyclopedia Ii - Elder Futhark - The Alphabet
The Older Futhark (named after the initial phoneme of the first six rune names) consist of twenty-four runes, often arranged in three gro...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sol Goddess: Encyclopedia Ii - Sol Goddess - The Sol Rune
The s-rune, ᛋ, is called Sól after the goddess in the Younger Futhark, and Sigel in the Anglo-Saxon rune poem. The Elder Futhark varia...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ogham: Encyclopedia Ii - Ogham - Distribution
Monumental Ogham inscriptions are found in Ireland, Scotland, Wales, England, and the Isle of Man, and a handful on Shetland. They were m...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Futhark: New Age Spirituality Dictionary On Futhark
Futhark Runic alphabet used often in divination, its origins are Norse (Germanic). Divided into the elder Futhark and the younger Futh...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ogham: Encyclopedia Ii - Ogham - Examples
Combined Latin alphabet and Ogham inscriptions Knoc y Doonee, Kirk Andreas, Isle of Man (NX 404 022) AMMECATI | FILIVS-ROCATI | HIC-IAC...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ogham: Encyclopedia Ii - Ogham - Origins
Ogham - Evolution. Use of "classical" Ogham in stone seems to have flowered in the 5th–6th centuries around the Irish Sea. The langua...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Viking Age: Encyclopedia Ii - Viking Age - Geography
There are various theories concerning the causes of the Viking invasions. For people living along the coast, it would seem natural to see...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Elder Futhark: Encyclopedia Ii - Elder Futhark - Inscription Corpus
Old Futhark inscriptions were found on artefacts scattered between the Carpathes and Lappland, with the highest concentration in Denmark....   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sol Goddess: Encyclopedia Ii - Sol Goddess - Overview
Every day, Sol rode through the sky on her chariot, pulled by two horses named Alsvid and Arvak. She was chased during the day by Skoll, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Rune Poem: Encyclopedia Ii - Rune Poem - Anglo-saxon Only Runes
While the Younger Futhark has reduced the original inventory of 24 runes, the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc has expanded it: to 29 runes in the run...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Futhark: New Age Spirituality Dictionary On Futhark
Futhark Runic alphabet used often in divination, its origins are Norse (Germanic). Divided into the elder Futhark and the younger Futh...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Rune Poem: Encyclopedia Ii - Rune Poem - Runes
Rune poem - Fe. Nor. Fe, Icel. Fé,AS Feoh ᚠ "wealth" The word fe for wealth is cognate to English fee and originally meant "cattle...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Viking Age: Encyclopedia Ii - Viking Age - Technology
The Vikings were equipped with the then technologically superior longships; for purposes of conducting trade, however, another type of sh...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Rune Poem: Encyclopedia Ii - Rune Poem - Yr
C. f. Anglo-Saxon Yr ᚣ: one of the additional runes, with the shape a variant of Scandinavian Ur. There is an Anglo-Saxon rune whose na...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nazi Symbolism: Encyclopedia Ii - Nazi Symbolism - Runic Letters
The letters of the runic alphabet have been used by Nazism and neo-Nazi groups that associate themselves with Germanic traditions, mainly...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Ulphilas: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Ulphilas
Ulphilas (Scandianvian Norse). A schoolman who made a new alphabet for the Goths in the fourth century - a union of Greek letters with...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Futhark: Spiritual Dictionary On Futhark
Futhark: The entire sequence of the rune-row in its fixed order. The word Futhark is derived from the phonetic values of the first six...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Runes: New Age Spirituality Dictionary On Runes
Runes Symbols of ancient Norse and Germanic alphabets the symbols of which were ascribed magical properties and used mainly for charms...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Old Hungarian Script: Encyclopedia Ii - Old Hungarian Script - Origins
Hungarian Runes are not related to Germanic Runes, but derive from the Orkhon or Turkic Runic script. The runic script was the first ment...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Rune Poem: Encyclopedia Ii - Rune Poem - Anglo-saxon Only Runes
While the Younger Futhark has reduced the original inventory of 24 runes, the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc has expanded it: to 29 runes in the run...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gothic Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Gothic Language - Alphabet
See Gothic alphabet. Ulfilas' Gothic, as well as that of the Skeireins and various other manuscripts, was written using an alphabet that ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gothic Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Gothic Language - Alphabet
See Gothic alphabet. Ulfilas' Gothic, as well as that of the Skeireins and various other manuscripts, was written using an alphabet that ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Denmark: Encyclopedia Ii - Denmark - History
The origin of Denmark is lost in prehistory. The oldest Danevirke is from the 7th century, at the same time as the new Runic alphabet. Ol...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Denmark: Encyclopedia Ii - Denmark - History
The exact origin of Denmark is lost in history. The oldest Danevirke is from the seventh century, appearing at the same time as the new R...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hungarian Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - Hungarian Literature - Middle Ages And Before
The beginning of the history of Hungarian language as such (and so the proto-Hungarian period) is set to 1000 B.C., when – according to...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Norwegian Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - Norwegian Literature - Early Influences
Around 1030, Christianity came to Norway, bringing with it the Latin alphabet, which supplanted the runic alphabet. Norse or Norwegian li...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ole Worm: Encyclopedia Ii - Ole Worm - Scientific And Cultural Significance
In medicine, Worm's chief contributions were in embryology. The Wormian bones (small bones that fill gaps in the cranial sutures) are nam...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Germanic Languages: Encyclopedia Ii - Germanic Languages - Writing
Our earliest evidence of Germanic is from names, recorded in the 1st century by Tacitus, and in a single instance in the 2nd century BC, ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Runes: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Runes
Runes (Scandianvian Norse). The Runic language and characters are the mystery or sacerdotal tongue and alphabet of the ancient Scandin...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Norwegian Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Norwegian Language - History
The languages now spoken in Scandinavia developed from the Old Norse language, which did not differ greatly between what are now Danish, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Old English Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Old English Language - Standardised Orthography
Old English was at first written in runes (futhorc), but shifted to the Latin alphabet with some additions: the letter yogh, adopted from...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Old Norse Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Old Norse Language - Dialects And Texts
The earliest inscriptions in Old Norse are runic, from the 8th century (although there are 200 inscriptions in Proto-Norse going as far b...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Swedish Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - Swedish Literature - Old Swedish
As Swedish evolved from Old Norse in the 13th century, we can begin say that Swedish Literature began to develop as an independent body o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Old Hungarian Script: Encyclopedia Ii - Old Hungarian Script - Archeological Findings
1. Nicholsburg calendar 2. Székelyderzs: a brick with runic inscription, found in the Unitarian church 3. Énlak: runic inscription, dis...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chuvash Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Chuvash Language - Modern Chuvash Alphabet
А Ӑ Б В Г Д Е Ё Ӗ Ж З И Й К Л М Н О П Р С Ҫ Т У Ӳ Ф Х Ц Ч Ш Щ Ъ Ы Ь Э Ю Я а ӑ б в г д е ё ӗ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Foobar: Encyclopedia Ii - Foobar - Etymology
Most probably, "foo" and "bar" were derived from "foobar," which in turn had its origins in the military slang acronym FUBAR. The most co...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Phoenician Alphabet: Encyclopedia Ii - Phoenician Alphabet - The Alphabet
The original Proto-Sinatic letters had been pictograms, derived from Egyptian hieroglyphs. Philistines, an ancient Minoan civilization ra...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Danish Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Danish Language - History
In the 8th century, the common Germanic language of Scandinavia, Proto-Norse, had undergone some changes and evolved into Old Norse. This...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Danish Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Danish Language - History
In the 8th century, the common Germanic language of Scandinavia, Proto-Norse, had undergone some changes and evolved into Old Norse. This...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ligature Typography: Encyclopedia Ii - Ligature Typography - List
This is a list of articles about ligatures, or letters developed from ligatures: Latin: Æ, DŽ, ij, Lj, Nj, Ñ, Œ, ß, W, &. Cyrill...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Wolfsangel: Encyclopedia Ii - Wolfsangel - Alleged Runic Origins
The symbol and the name Wolfsangel are claimed by some Neopagan groups to be of runic origin, and although this claim is accepted by the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Phoenician Alphabet: Encyclopedia Ii - Phoenician Alphabet - The Alphabet
The original Proto-Sinatic alphabet was pictographic and derived from Egyptian hieroglyphs. It as in use from ca. 1500 BC in the Sinai an...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ligature Typography: Encyclopedia Ii - Ligature Typography - Ligatures In Other Alphabets
Ligatures are not limited to Latin script. Some forms of the Glagolitic script, used from Middle Ages to the 19th century to write some S...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Latin Alphabet: Encyclopedia Ii - Latin Alphabet - Overview
The default Latin alphabet is the Roman, supplemented with J, W, Z, K, and lower-case variants: A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Latin Alphabet: Encyclopedia Ii - Latin Alphabet - Overview
The default Latin alphabet is the Roman, supplemented with J, W, Z, U, and lower-case variants: A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Old Italic Alphabet: Encyclopedia Ii - Old Italic Alphabet - The Etruscan Alphabet
It is not clear whether the process of adaptation from the Greek alphabet took place in Italy from the first colony of Greeks, the city o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Guido Von List: Encyclopedia Ii - Guido Von List - Runic Revivalism
The row of 18 so-called "Armanen Runes", also known as the "Armanen Futharkh" came to List while in an 11 month state of temporary blind...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ligature Typography: Encyclopedia Ii - Ligature Typography - Specialized Computer Typesetting Programs
TeX is an example of a computer typesetting system that makes use of ligatures automatically. The Computer Modern Roman typeface, which i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Latin Alphabet: Encyclopedia Ii - Latin Alphabet - Evolution
It is generally held that the Latins adopted the western variant of the Greek alphabet in the 7th century BC from Cumae, a Greek colony i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Writing Systems: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Writing Systems - Segmental Scripts
A segmental script has graphemes which represent the phonemes (basic unit of sound) of a language. Note that there need not be (and rarel...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Velar Nasal: Encyclopedia Ii - Velar Nasal - In Other Languages
The [ŋ] sound is a fairly common sound cross-linguistically. It is unusual in that in many languages it is only permitted in postvocalic...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - W: Encyclopedia Ii - W - Alternative Representations
Whiskey represents the letter W in the NATO phonetic alphabet. In international Morse code the letter W is DitDahDah: · - - In...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ligature Typography: Encyclopedia Ii - Ligature Typography - Obvious Examples
Ligature typography - The family of ligatures for the letter f. One of the most common ligatures recognizable as such is "fi." Since th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Old Norse Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Old Norse Language - Sounds
Old Norse language - Vowels. The vowel phonemes mostly come in pairs of long and short. The orthography marks the long vowels with an ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Old Norse Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Old Norse Language - Modern Descendants
Its modern descendants are the West Scandinavian languages of Icelandic, Faroese, Norwegian and the extinct Norn language of the Orkney a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Stephen I Of Hungary: Encyclopedia Ii - Stephen I Of Hungary - His Politics
Stephen divided Hungary into 40-50 counties and continued the work of his father Geza by applying the decimal organizational system of hi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Code2000: Encyclopedia Ii - Code2000 - Critics
The font has a very wide coverage of character sets. However, the glyphs for Unihan are badly shaped: Half of the characters are missing...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Latin Alphabet: Encyclopedia Ii - Latin Alphabet - Extensions
In the course of its history, the Latin alphabet was adapted for use for new languages, some of which had phonemes which were not used in...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Latin Alphabet: Encyclopedia Ii - Latin Alphabet - Collating Sequence With Extensions
Alphabets derived from the Latin have varying collating rules: In Breton, there is no "c" but there are the ligatures "ch" and "c'h", wh...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Danish Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Danish Language - Writing System
Danish is written using the Latin alphabet, with three additional letters: æ, ø, and å, which come at the end of the Danish alphabet, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ligature Typography: Encyclopedia Ii - Ligature Typography - Stylistic Ligatures
More ligatures were developed for italic fonts rather than Roman ones. Fonts in italics used the "Long s" in ligatures for "sh", "sch", "...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Danish Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Danish Language - Writing System
Danish is written using the Latin alphabet, with three additional letters: æ, ø, and å, which come at the end of the Danish alphabet, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Runic Alphabet: Encyclopedia Ii - Runic Alphabet - Overview
The earliest runic inscriptions date from ca. 150, and the alphabet was generally replaced by the Latin alphabet with Christianisation, b...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Runic Alphabet: Encyclopedia Ii - Runic Alphabet - Modern Use
Runic alphabet - Third Reich. Runes have been used in Nazi symbolism by National Socialists and neo-Nazi groups that associate themselv...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Runic Alphabet: Encyclopedia Ii - Runic Alphabet - Intermediary Inscriptions
In the 7th century appeared an intermediary form of runes between the Elder Futhark and the Younger Futhark, but there are very few inscr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Runic Alphabet: Encyclopedia Ii - Runic Alphabet - Modern Use
Runic alphabet - Third Reich. Runes have been used in Nazi symbolism by National Socialists and neo-Nazi groups that associate themselv...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Runic Alphabet: Encyclopedia Ii - Runic Alphabet - Elder Fuþark
The Elder Futhark, used for writing proto-Norse (urnordisk, urnordiska), consist of twenty-four runes, often arranged in three rows of ei...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Runic Alphabet: Encyclopedia Ii - Runic Alphabet - Elder Fuþark
The Elder Futhark, used for writing proto-Norse (urnordisk, urnordiska), consist of twenty-four runes, often arranged in three rows of ei...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Runic Alphabet: Encyclopedia Ii - Runic Alphabet - Younger Fuþark
The Younger Fuþark, also called Scandinavian Fuþark, is a reduced form of the Elder Futhark, consisting of only 16 characters. The redu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Runic Alphabet: Encyclopedia Ii - Runic Alphabet - Younger Fuþark
The Younger Fuþark, also called Scandinavian Fuþark, is a reduced form of the Elder Futhark, consisting of only 16 characters. The redu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Runic Alphabet: Encyclopedia Ii - Runic Alphabet - Frisian And Anglo-saxon Fuþorc
main article: Anglo-Saxon Futhorc. The Futhorc are an extended alphabet, consisting of 29, and later even 33 characters. It was used prob...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Runic Alphabet: Encyclopedia Ii - Runic Alphabet - Frisian And Anglo-saxon Fuþorc
The Futhorc are an extended alphabet, consisting of 29, and later even 33 characters. It was used probably from the 5th century onward. T...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Runic Alphabet: Encyclopedia Ii - Runic Alphabet - Frisian And Anglo-saxon Fuþorc
The Futhorc are an extended alphabet, consisting of 29, and later even 33 characters. It was used probably from the 5th century onward. T...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Runic Alphabet: Encyclopedia Ii - Runic Alphabet - Elder Fuþark
main article: Elder Futhark. The Elder Futhark, used for writing proto-Norse (urnordisk, urnordiska), consist of twenty-four runes, often...   » Read the article

Article - Popular Pages Sitemap Vii - Q
This is a sitemap for Popular Pages VII - Q . Click on a link and you will find multiple definitions and articles related to the word. ...   » Read the article