Norwegian Runes and Runic Inscriptions - Terje Spurkland - Google Books

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Runes, a unique functional writing system, exclusive to northern and eastern Europe, were used for some 1300 years in Scandinavia, from about AD 200 till around the end of the fourteenth century, when the runic alphabet, called fuÞark after the six first…