An introduction to English runes
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An introduction to English runes
Boydell Press, 1999
2nd ed
- : pbk
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Bibliography: p. [233]-240
Includes indexes
Originally published: London : Methuen, 1973
Description and Table of Contents
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ISBN 9780851157689
Description
Runes are quite frequently mentioned in modern writings, usually imprecisely as a source of mystic knowledge, power or insight. This book sets the record straight. It shows runes working as a practical script for a variety of purposes in early English times, among both indigenous Anglo-Saxons and incoming Vikings. In a scholarly yet readable way it examines the introduction of the runic alphabet (the futhorc) to England in the fifth and sixth centuries, the forms and values of its letters, and the ways in which it developed, up until its decline at the end of the Anglo-Saxon period. It discusses how runes were used for informal and day-to-day purposes, on formal monuments, as decorative letters in prestigious manuscripts, for owners' or makers' names on everyday objects, perhaps even in private letters.
For the first time, the book presents, together with earlier finds, the many runic objects discoveredover the last twenty years, with a range of inscriptions on bone, metal and stone, even including tourists' scratched signatures found on the pilgrimage routes through Italy. It gives an idea of the immense range of information on language and social history contained in these unique documents. Professor R.I. PAGE is former Elrington and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon in the University of Cambridge, and Librarian of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.
Table of Contents
- Runes and runesters
- when and where
- the Anglo-Saxon runic letters
- condition, preservation and record
- "Runica manuscripta" and the rune-names
- the divided "futhorc" and runic codes
- runic or rune-like
- how to use runes
- runic coins
- rune-stones
- runes elsewhere
- more manuscript runes
- Anglo-Saxon and Viking
- runic and Roman
- the study of runes.
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: pbk ISBN 9780851159461
Description
Introduction to the use of runes as a practical script for a variety of purposes in Anglo-Saxon England.
Runes are quite frequently mentioned in modern writings, usually imprecisely as a source of mystic knowledge, power or insight. This book sets the record straight. It shows runes working as a practical script for a variety of purposes in early English times, among both indigenous Anglo-Saxons and incoming Vikings. In a scholarly yet readable way it examines the introduction of the runic alphabet (the futhorc) to England in the fifth and sixth centuries, the forms and values of its letters, and the ways in which it developed, up until its decline at the end of the Anglo-Saxon period. It discusses how runes were used for informal and day-to-day purposes, on formal monuments, as decorative letters in prestigious manuscripts, for owners' or makers' names on everyday objects, perhaps even in private letters.
For the first time, the book presents, together with earlier finds, the many runic objects discovered over the last twenty years, with a range of inscriptions on bone, metal and stone, even including tourists' scratched signatures found on the pilgrimage routes through Italy. It gives an idea of the immense range of informationon language and social history contained in these unique documents.
The late R.I. PAGE was former Professor of Anglo-Saxon in the University of Cambridge.
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