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> From: Gary <baldr369@...>
>I have 5 diferent fuþorcs in a book i am useing for studies. Wich one
>
> isused for project A? I have Common Germanic, Thames, Vienna, Cod.
> Otho BX (10th century) and Ruthwell. Or let me guess i do not have
> the one ineed?
What's the book? Elliot by any chance?
Most of those are Anglo Saxon futharks.
Also some of the rune forms are
rare (Ruthwell 'c' in 'Cyning') or improperly carved (Thames 'd' and
'j').
Vienna is the best for a general Anglo-Saxon futhark
[futhorc etc.
tends to be used by Anglo-Saxon scholars to differntiate Anglo-Saxon runes from
Old Norse runes. In the same way they resist unifiying transliteration practices
- e.g. Old Norse 'bold letters' compared to Anglo-Saxon's 's p
a c e d l e t t e r s'. Me I don't give a damn, runes are runes.]
Anyway, where was I...
The runes best used for Old Norse are the Viking
age runes (Runes in Scandinavia in Elliot.) Two slightly different futharks of
16 runes, with occasional dots to help convey differences. Not enough letters or
vowels, but two a's and two r's and thats the one...
[I will try and put an intro to the runes page together over the weekend, and will post my efforts up to the list]
Don't worry if you get odd forms cropping up in inscriptions, or mixed futharks - thats what happens in the real world.
Links to runic fonts...
http://www.hit.uib.no/Runefonter/Gullskoen-e.html
Download the Gullskoen runic font -
Academic font, very good my personal recommendation.
http://www.hit.uib.no/Runefonter/Gullhornet-e.html
Their other Older futhark version - also highly recommended.
Good books to get:
R.I.Page, Runes. British Museum
publications.
Very good basic intro - and rather cheap.
R.W.V. Elliot, Runes.
More detailed,
but may be hard to find.
E. Moltke, Runes and their origin,
Denmark and elsewhere.
Very good detailed overview - with bias towards Danish
inscriptions. Includes list of Danish inscriptions.
S.B.F. Jansson, Runes in Sweden
Very
good book from a renowned runologist.
And for Anglo-Saxon runic
inscriptions:
R.I.Page, An introduction to English runes.
The bible for
Anglo-Saxon runes....
Hopefully some of these should be in print.
There are loads more, but these form a good introduction from which you can start to branch out (or pester me for more book + article recommendations)
Cheers
Stuntie.