I found this quoted in an article on the net, originally from the
1967 Encyclopedia Britannica article "Rune":
"It has been established that a number of runes which are
contemporaneous with the oldest of those found in the Danish bogland
have been discovered along a line of country passing through
Pomerania, Brandenburg, Volhynia and Rumania. Moreover, these
discoveries include archaic objects the primary forms of which do not
hail from western Europe but are found in southeastern Europe, on the
northern coast of the Black sea and along the lower Danube and in
Carinthia. From this fact, and also from the close agreement of the
forms of the letters in these texts, especially the Negau helmets,
with those of the subalpine alphabets of northern Italy, and the
agreement in date (c. 250 B.C.), the conclusion was drawn
simultaneously by a number of scholars that the runes came to
Scandinavia from central Europe and that the script itself was of
subalpine origin."
I am new to this topic, I don't know if this hypothesis still holds
water today. But, if so, could the Central European intermediary
mentioned above coincide with the "Odin people"?
Cort
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