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    RUNE WITH A VIEW

    Sep 01, 2021 1 minute
    by Ellen Tarr

    Scotland, are messages dating to the twelfth century (1100s). They’re in a form of the runic alphabet calledpronounced “futhork”). The name comes from its first six letters The symbol þ, called “thorn,” is a letter from older alphabets that we don’t use anymore. It’s pronounced as “th.” The standard fuþork alphabet had 16 letters. However, the Maeshowe inscriptions also include several other runes, for sounds like “g,” “oo,” and “ee.” A few of the inscriptions also incorporated a different kind of rune, called twig runes or tree runes.

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