Rune alphabet

Runes are ancient alphabets which were used by the Germanic and Nordic tribes of northern Europe, Scandinavia and Britain for writing… | Instagram

Discover the ancient runic alphabet, a foundation for numerous Germanic languages, including the renowned Viking runes, with a history spanning thousands of years.

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Description You may remember the runes from a while back when I first introduced them. If you're interested in the long-winded explanations of each discipline, you can find them on the old deviation here. This is partially the product of my Macroeconomics class, where I started doodling my own runes out of boredom. The ones I was using previously were someone else's brush set, and those were the inspiration for my own runes here. As these runes are of my own creation, and specifically for…

Rune comes from the word runo, meaning letter and mystery. Early Germanic systems were runic alphabets. Although the runes—often made by sticks, carved onto stone, wood, bone and metal—represented letters, they were ideographic or pictographic symbols of some cosmological principle or power. To use the runic language meant invoking the force for which it stood. For example the Týr rune is the Norse god of war, portrayed as a one-handed warrior. Týr’s symbol is the sword. Once

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