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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Runes"”.
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Runes: Past and Present
… is to illustrate how the primary function of runes has changed through history. In doing so this study also begins to document the reemergence of runes especially in Asatru circles. Runes were historically employed for utilitarian purposes whereas they have been imbued with magical qualities …
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Literacy in Scandinavia. A passage from orality influenced by runes
… preserve were not composed in an oral society. Runes were used centuries before the arrival of the Latin alphabet and they were used for noting down poems and memorial messages. Those inscriptions show an evolution not only in the type of messages written, but also in the complexity of the poems …
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Cruciform runes in the manuscripts of some Old English poems
… of view of the present study presupposes that OE runes—in their genesis a product of pagan Germanic times, replete with established phonetic and lexical levels of meaning—ought to be considered from the further perspective of their literal configuration as found in MSS, as well as in artifacts. …
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Umbilicus Runicus: Runic and Mediterranean Epigraphy
… previous investigations on the origin of the runes have been hampered by a series of ad hoc postulates, the greatest being that the runes cannot have come into existence before the birth of Christ. If one examines the runic, Greek and Latin alphabets on the basis of letter shapes, …
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Runic writing in Orkney: expression of a Norse identity?
… some reflections on the modern use of runes in Orkney are made, and it is shown that in modern Orkney, runes also serve as expressions of a Norse identity.
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Death, writing, and remembrance in Anglo-Saxon England
The Anglo-Saxon conversion to Christianity was as much a revolution in literacy as it was in religion. I argue that within this new textual culture, the Anglo-Saxons exploited writing’s aura of permanence to counter the social, spiritual, and physical oblivion of death. By using writing both to …