Elder futhark runes generator how to#

See How to Input Unicode Ogham for suggestions on how to input Unicode characters (just substitute 'Runic' for 'Ogham' on that page). This font does not map runic glyphs to Latin letters like most fonts, but uses the special Runic characters defined in the Unicode Standard. This font also includes variant forms for most of these runes using unofficial variation sequences. A “West Germanic hypothesis” suggests transmission via Elbe Germanic groups, while a “Gothic hypothesis” presumes transmission via East Germanic expansion.BabelStone Fonts : BabelStone Runic Elder Futhark BabelStone Fonts BabelStone Runic Elder Futhark DescriptionīabelStone Runic Elder Futhark is a Unicode Runic font covering the 24 runes of the Common Germanic fuþark, also known as the Elder Fuþark. The oldest inscriptions are found in Denmark and northern Germany, not near Italy. The process of transmission of the script is unknown.

At the time, all of these scripts had the same angular letter shapes suited for epigraphy, which would become characteristic of the runes. Suggestions include Raetic, Etruscan, or Old Latin as candidates. Which variant of the Old Italic family in particular gave rise to the runes is uncertain. Historically, the runic alphabet is a derivation of the Old Italic alphabets of antiquity, with the addition of some innovations. The Younger Futhark developed further into the Marcomannic runes, the Medieval runes (1100–1500 AD), and the Dalecarlian runes (around 1500–1800 AD). The Younger Futhark is divided further into the long-branch runes (also called Danish, although they were also used in Norway and Sweden) short-branch or Rök runes (also called Swedish-Norwegian, although they were also used in Denmark) and the stavlösa or Hälsinge runes (staveless runes). The three best-known runic alphabets are the Elder Futhark (around 150–800 AD), the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc (400–1100 AD), and the Younger Futhark (800–1100 AD). Until the early 20th century, runes were used in rural Sweden for decorative purposes in Dalarna and on Runic calendars. However, the use of runes persisted for specialized purposes in northern Europe. The characters were generally replaced by the Latin alphabet as the cultures that had used runes underwent Christianisation, by approximately 700 AD in central Europe and 1100 AD in northern Europe. The earliest runic inscriptions date from around 150 AD. Runology forms a specialised branch of Germanic linguistics. Runology is the study of the runic alphabets, runic inscriptions, runestones, and their history. The Scandinavian variants are also known as futhark or fuþark (derived from their first six letters of the alphabet: F, U, Þ, A, R, and K) the Anglo-Saxon variant is futhorc or fuþorc (due to sound changes undergone in Old English by the names of those six letters). Runes (Proto-Norse: ᚱᚢᚾᛟ (runo), Old Norse: rún) are the letters in a set of related alphabets known as runic alphabets, which were used to write various Germanic languages before the adoption of the Latin alphabet and for specialised purposes thereafter. However, in Unicode 7.0 some additional Runic characters were added, including three Runic characters that were used only by Tolkien, for example in the maps of Hobbit: these are different from Cirth. Tolkien-designed Cirth, which has a separate ConScript Unicode Registry encoding. Although many of the characters appear similar, they should not be confused with the J.R.R.

Runic is a Unicode block containing characters for writing Futhark runic inscriptions.