Norwegian Runes And Runic Inscriptions, Terje Spurkland, Boydell Press, 2005, ISBN 978-1-84383-186-0, ... Runes were a functional writing system that endured for 1300 years in Norway - from about AD200 up to the fifteenth century. About 6000 runic inscriptions have been found, half of which are in Sweden. There are about 1600 Norwegian inscriptions. Runes were unique and completely exclusive to northern Europe; they were primarily used in Scandinavia, but were also used in the British Isles, northern Germany and wherever northern Europeans needed to mark their hunting grounds ...
Rune Cards, Ralph Blum, pp. 24, Connections Book Publishing, 2004, ISBN 978-1-85906-138-1, ... As worship of the pagan gods fell into disfavour and was displaced by Christianity, the runic alphabet was supplanted by the ubiquitous Latin script. However, the Runes continued to survive. Calendars known as primstave, or runstaf ...
The Spiritual Runes: A Guide to the Ancestral Wisdom, Harmonia Saille, O Books, 2009, ISBN 978-1-84694-201-3, ... The Elder Futhark is the oldest rune row and is thought to have come into use in about 100 CE. It is this Futhark that we will be discussing throughout this book. The name “Futhark” is taken from the initial six runes ...
Little Giant Encyclopedia: Runes, Sirona Knight, pp. 206, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc., 2008, ISBN 978-1-4027-6006-8, ... By the third century, the runic alphabet was the only one used in Scandinavia. However, it fell out of use in middle Europe with the expansion of Christianity thanks to the legally enforced preference for Latin. It is interesting that as late as 1611, though people were persecuted and put to death by Christians for using runes, there were still attempts to get runes adopted as the official alphabet of Sweden ...
Northern Lore, Eoghan Odinsson, Eoghan Odinsson, pp. 35-36, 2010, ISBN 978-1-4528-5143-3, ... The three best runic rows, and their approximate years of common usage are: (*) Elder Futhark (around 150 to 800 CE), (*) Old English Futhorc (400 to 1100 CE), (*) Younger Futhark (800-1100 CE) ... The Elder Futhark is the oldest form of the runic row, used by Germanic tribes for Northwest Germanic and Migration period of the 2nd to 8th centuries for inscriptions on artifacts such as jewellry, amulets, tools, weapons and runestones. In Scandinavia, the script was simplified to the Younger Futhark from the late 8th century ...
