We know this rune means god in the rune poems so its speculated its calling upon a certain god (Odin perhaps) or a number of gods. Now unless the person was having a seizure while writing these things its pretty clear they are some kind of chants.įor example the lindholm amulet that was likely created around the years 100-400 AD reads and as you can see features a row of runes. The rune poems we know are from Icelandic, Old Norwegian and English backgrounds and you can find them on the interenet, I believe wikipedia has them all listed out as well. We know these from old poems that were used to remember the runes - similar to some of the childrens songs you see today where they sing something along the lines of a is for apple, b is for bee, c is for cat and d is for dog. Download running man episode 172 subtitle indonesia The Anglo-Saxon futhark was used in England by the inhabitants of that land to write Old English. The Younger Futhark was used to write Old Norse and was the one in common use during the Viking age. With the futharks depicted on here the oldest is the Elder Futhark and that was used to write the proto-norse language. There are actually more futharks in the world with one of the oldest being a Portugese one, if youre interested in that look up on youtube Arith Hrger as he has done an amazing job exploring that. The main speculated reasons are that its an alternate greek alphabet that was written this way or that the futhark sequence we know nowadays is some magicalcryptic sequence instead of the regular ABC sequence and that for unknown reasons it became the widely used version. There is no agreed reason or evidence why its so different from all the other writing systems where always an alphabet is used. Its the same for runes, the first six letters are F U Th A R K. The translator on here Ive used the most common and agreed upon way of transfering runes to the English sounding alphabet.
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