Runes were used for both everyday messages, such as displayed on this link: http://www.vikingrune.com/2008/12/runic-love-quotes/
and formal legal documents, such as the Codex Runicus. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Runicus
and also as monuments to events, people (both living and dead), land ownership, etc.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runestone

Runes also have magical purposes and were said to have originated from Odin himself.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rune#Runes_in_Eddic_lore
Runes were, and are, used by some for divination. 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rune#Magical_or_divinatory_use
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runic_magic


I hope that this information helps you.
Joshua




On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 10:36 AM, jeffery craft <warbuff_4@...> wrote:
 

jest need to know if they wrote everyday word with them  or were they only for magic... ect.. ect


"Consider your origin, you were not born to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.”
 
                                                                                                                                Dante Alighieri 
 
Ti. Aurelius Trio


--- On Thu, 2/3/11, Sveinn Fjölnirsson <sveinnfjolnirsson@...> wrote:

From: Sveinn Fjölnirsson <sveinnfjolnirsson@...>
Subject: RE: [norse_course] heil

To: norse_course@yahoogroups.com
Date: Thursday, February 3, 2011, 8:52 AM


 
Heill!

Of course. I consider myself quite an expert on the matter. What do you need to know?
Friendly heathen regards,

-Sveinn "Tungumargi" Fjǫlnirsson

To: norse_course@yahoogroups.com
From: warbuff_4@...
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 22:42:55 -0800
Subject: [norse_course] heil

 
hello fellow norse studiers
 
i have a question about runes. can someone help me understand runes...
 
 
vale bene
 
 "Consider your origin, you were not born to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.”
 
                                                                                                                                Dante Alighieri 
 
Ti. Aurelius Trio