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Study of Runic alphabets

For the social phenomenon in China derived from the English word "run", see Run (meme).
Children being taught a runic alphabet (1555), from Olaus Magnus's Historia de gentibus septentrionalibus

Runology is the study of the Runic alphabets, Runic inscriptions, and their history. Runology forms a specialized branch of Germanic linguistics.

History

Runology was initiated by Johannes Bureus (1568–1652), who was interested in the linguistics of the Geatish language (Götiska språket), i.e. Old Norse. However, he did not look at the runes as merely an alphabet, but rather something holy or magical.

The study of runes was continued by Olof Rudbeck the Elder (1630–1702) and presented in his collection Atlantica. The physicist Anders Celsius (1701–1744) further extended the science of runes and traveled around Sweden to examine the bautastenar (megaliths, today termed runestones). Another early treatise is the 1732 Runologia by Jón Ólafsson of Grunnavík.

The sundry runic scripts were well understood by the 19th century, when their analysis became an integral part of the Germanic philology and historical linguistics. Wilhelm Grimm published his Über deutsche Runen in 1821, where among other things he dwelt upon the "Marcomannic runes" (chapter 18, pp. 149–159). In 1828, he published a supplement, titled Zur Literatur der Runen, where he discusses the Abecedarium Nordmannicum.

Sveriges runinskrifter was published from 1900. The dedicated journal Nytt om runer has been published by the "Runic Archives" of the Museum of Cultural History at the University of Oslo from 1985. The Rundata project, aiming at a machine-readable catalogue of runic inscriptions, was initiated in 1993.

See also

References

  1. "Definition of RUNOLOGY". www.merriam-webster.com.
  2. Bäckvall, Maja (25 September 2018). "Episode 1: Basics of runology and the origins of runic writing".
  3. Schulte, Michael (1 May 2015). "Runology and historical sociolinguistics: On runic writing and its social history in the first millennium". Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics. 1 (1): 87–110. doi:10.1515/jhsl-2015-0004. S2CID 162692466.
  4. Stille, PER (2006). "Johannes Bureus and the Runic Traditions". Das fuþark und seine einzelsprachlichen Weiterentwicklungen. pp. 453–458. doi:10.1515/9783110922981.453. ISBN 9783110922981.
  5. Norris, Matthew (10 July 2016). A Pilgrimage to the Past : Johannes Bureus and the Rise of Swedish Antiquarian Scholarship, 1600-1650 (thesis/docmono). Lund University – via lup.lub.lu.se.
Runes
Germanic Elder Futhark
24-type Fuþark
(ca. AD to 9th c.)
Normalized
Variations




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ã
r k g ƿ
v
h n i j ï
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p z
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s t b e
ɛ
m l ŋ d
ð
o
å
ö
Anglo-Frisian Futhorc
28-type Fuþorc
(ca. 5th c. to 9th c.)
Normalized
Variations

 

 
   
f
u
o
þ
ð
o
å
ö
r c
k
ɧ
ɕ
ȝ
g
ŋ
k
ƿ/v h n i j ï
é
ēo
p x s t b e
ɛ
m l ŋ d œ
oe
ōe
a æ y ea
æa
Later Anglo-Saxon Futhorc
33-type Fuþorc
(ca. 8th c. to 12th c.)
Normalized
Variations

 

 
f
u
o
þ
ð
o
å
ö
r c
k
ɧ
ɕ
ȝ
g
ŋ
k
ƿ/v h n i j ï
é
ēo
p x s t b e
ɛ
m l ŋ d œ
oe
ōe
a æ
y
y īa
īo
ea
æa
q k st

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kk
Norse Younger Futhark
16-type Fuþark
(ca. 8th c. to 11th c.)
Long-Branch
Short-Twig
f
u
y/ö
o
v/w
þ
ð
ą
o
å/ǫ
r k
g
ŋ
h n i
j
e
a
ä
s
z
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d
b
p
m l ʀ
Later Younger Futhark
Stung Fuþark
(ca. 11th c. to 13th c.)
Regular
f u
o
w
þ o
å/ǫ
r k h n i
j
a
ä
s
z
t b m l y
ʀ
Stung
v y
ö
ð g
ŋ
ɴ e
ä
d p ʟ
Medieval runes
Medieval Fuþark
(ca. 13th c. to 18th c.)
1st types
f u
w
þ o r k
q
h
x
n i
j
a s t b m l y
2nd types
v y
v
ð ǫ
å
g n e ä c
z
d p ʟ y
3rd types
ö ng ɴ z
c
4th types
x
Alphabetical
amalgamation








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Dalecarlian runes
Dalecarlian alphabet
(ca. 16th c. to 19th c.)
Alphabetical
(incomplete)
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a b c d e f g h i k l m n o p q r s t u x y z å ä ö
See also
Runic inscriptions interactive map
Runic inscriptions
Rune Poems
Runestones
Runic magic
Modern runic writing
Pseudo-runes
Staveless runes


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