Runes: A HandbookBoydell Press, 2012 - 240 sider Offers a full introduction to and survey of runes and runology: their history, how they were used, and their interpretation. Runes, often considered magical symbols of mystery and power, are in fact an alphabetic form of writing. Derived from one or more Mediterranean prototypes, they were used by Germanic peoples to write different kinds of Germanic language, principally Anglo-Saxon and the various Scandinavian idioms, and were carved into stone, wood, bone, metal, and other hard surfaces; types of inscription range from memorials to the dead, through Christian prayers and everyday messages to crude graffiti. First reliably attested in the second century AD, runes were in due course supplanted by the roman alphabet, though in Anglo-Saxon England they continued in use until the early eleventh century, inScandinavia until the fifteenth (and later still in one or two outlying areas). Professor MICHAEL P, BARNES is Emeritus Professor of Scandinavian Studies, University College London. |
Indhold
1 Introduction | 1 |
2 The origin of the runes | 9 |
3 The older fuþark | 17 |
4 Inscriptions in the older fuþark | 27 |
5 The development of runes in AngloSaxon England and Frisia | 37 |
6 The English and Frisian inscriptions | 42 |
7 The development of runes in Scandinavia | 54 |
8 Scandinavian inscriptions of the Viking Age | 66 |
13 Runica manuscripta and rune names | 153 |
14 The making of runic inscriptions | 165 |
15 The reading and interpretation of runic inscriptions | 177 |
literature and politics | 190 |
17 A brief history of runology | 197 |
18 Where to find runic inscriptions | 213 |
Glossary | 218 |
Phonetic and phonemic symbols | 221 |
9 The late VikingAge and medieval runes | 92 |
10 Scandinavian inscriptions of the Middle Ages | 99 |
11 Runic writing in the postReformation era | 129 |
12 Cryptic inscriptions and cryptic runes | 144 |
226 | |
Backcover | 241 |
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