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3 months ago

A Viking-Age Valentine's Day Card: A Medieval Runic Love Message from Sweden - Medievalists.net

An 11th-century Swedish paring-knife bears a runic love inscription reading 'Think of me, I think of you, love me, I love you', reflecting Viking-Age intimacy.
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9 months ago

New Medieval Books: The Elder Futhark - Medievalists.net

The Elder Futhark is a historic alphabet carefully developed and used by an unknown but highly influential group of speakers of an early Germanic language, apparently somewhere from 0 CE to a few hundred years before. The oldest inscriptions on record (at the moment) appear to date from 0-250 CE and a period of development beforehand is expected. The earliest form of the Elder Futhark consisted of 24 different runes, each representing a sound value and its name, a meaningful noun.
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