From the Runic to the Latin Alphabet
ᚻᛖᚱᚠᛖᚷᛏᚪᚦᛏᛁᛏᚢᛋᛖᚾᛞᚷᛁᚢᚦᛖᚪᛋᚢ - Here fight Titus and the Jews.
Key words
- Remnant: a small piece or amount of something that is left from a larger original piece or amount
The dog ate the remnants of last night's meal.
- Resurgence: a new increase of activity or interest in a particular subject or idea that had been forgotten for some time
There has been a resurgence of interest in Bitcoin.
- Influx: the fact of a large number of people or things arriving at the same time
They are expecting an influx of several thousand refugees over the next few days.
- Revival: the process of becoming more active or popular again
The May Day festival originally celebrated the revival of life in early spring after winter.
- Advent:the fact of an event happening, an invention being made, or a person arriving
Life was transformed by the advent of the steam engine.
Read the article to find the answers
- Who used the Runic alphabet?
- What is "Æ"?
- What caused the influx of Greek vocabulary?
- What accelerated the spread of Latin?
The Runic Alphabet
The Runic alphabet was used by Germanic tribes, including the Anglo-Saxons. Each rune represented a sound and often had a symbolic meaning. Written mainly on wood, stone or metal, runes were used for both communication and magic. Although the Latin alphabet gradually replaced runes with the spread of Christianity, remnants of the Runic system are still in use, and several modern systems of runic magic have been published since the 1980's.