The (current) earliest known runic inscription found in Britain is an Elder Futhark inscription (PreOE-GB-13) on a roe deer's ankle bone reading 'of the roe-deer'. It is dated to 425-475.
runesdb.deu/-Geistzeit — 8 days ago
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The Old English poem "The Husband's Message" is a poem in the voice of a rune-inscribed stick sent from husband to wife and includes a series of Anglo-Saxon runes read as an ideographic code. Many medieval rune-inscribed sticks were found many years later in Scandinavia (such as in Bryggen).
One thing I've never seen discussed here is the remarkable Old English poem "The Husband's Message" from the famous Exeter Book (its copying typically dated to the 900s).
This poem is in the voice of a rune-inscribed message stick from husband to wife as a form of long-distance communication and it features a series of Old English runes, apparently to be read as an ideographic puzzle, perhaps reflecting utilization of ideographic sentences as a kind of code.
As noted by scholars like MacLeod and Mees (2006: 55-56), this sounds very much like the many little rune-inscribed message sticks found in Bryggen in Bergen, Norway from the medieval period, some of which are little messages between husband and wife.
u/-Geistzeit — 9 days ago
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Transitional period between elder and younger futhark
I'm curious if we know of transitional periods between the two futharks, or whether it was a sudden instant change between them, and if the former, some examples would be helpful.
Also, some insight on what might've caused the development and change of the runes.
u/TheeImmortalPaladin — 10 days ago
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How did linguistics know what sound did each runic letter represent?
Okay so, I've been interested lately in the runes, and i would learn the Anglo-Saxon runes (futhorc?), but i genuinely wonder how did linguistics know what sound did each runic letter represent.
u/def_not_a_window — 14 days ago