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    • Archaeologists have identified a runic inscription on the artifact.
      Gaming piece with runic writing discovered in Trondheim, Norway
      Runestones are where you usually find examples of this strange Nordic alphabet – not a small gaming piece hidden beneath Trondheim, Norway, for 1,000 years.
      3 years ago — News
    • By the dawn of the Viking era, people in Viking societies had taken earlier Germanic runic letters and morphed them into what scholars now call the Elder Futhark Alphabet.
      What is the runic symbol for death?
      The runic symbol Algiz – sometimes known as the "z rune" - was the last letter of what has been called the Elder Futhark alphabet, the runic system of writing employed by people in Viking societies.
      3 years ago — Culture and religion
    • A rune set in Elder Futhark made from birch wood.
      All you need to know about the Elder Futhark, the oldest form of runic alphabets
      The most commonly known runic letters today are, of course, the two symbols that make up the Bluetooth technology symbol. Yet their history can be traced back two millennia to a writing system developed during the first few centuries CE.
      3 years ago — Culture and religion
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