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Dictionary

The rune dictionary

Every rune of the Elder Futhark, Younger Futhark and Anglo-Saxon Futhorc (74 entries in all), plus the medieval runes as a chart of their own. Each entry records what is attested, what is reconstructed, what is disputed, and what is modern interpretation, kept visibly apart.

Elder Futhark

c. AD 150 – 800 · 24 runes · The oldest runic alphabet: 24 characters used across the Germanic-speaking world from roughly the 2nd to the 8th century AD.

Younger Futhark

c. AD 800 – 1100 · 16 runes · The 16-character alphabet actually used in the Viking Age, written in long-branch, short-twig and staveless forms.

Anglo-Saxon Futhorc

c. AD 400 – 1100 · 29–33 runes · The English and Frisian branch, which expanded the Elder Futhark to 29 and later 33 or more characters.

Medieval runes

c. AD 1100 – 1500 · reference chart · The dotted, Latin-influenced runes of medieval Scandinavia: the most-used runic system of all, and the least written about.