Runes: Literacy in the Germanic Iron Age

by Stephen Pollington

The fu ark or runic alphabet has been studied for several centuries. Scholarly opinion about the origins and purposes of the writing ranges from the purely pragmatic to the highly symbolic, with a great deal of speculative fringe literature.
This new survey takes into account recent finds from Britain, Scandinavia and the Continent together with new interpretations of old finds. It investigates the reasons for the creation of the script.
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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1898281750
• ISBN13: 9781898281757
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: Anglo-Saxon Books
• Length: 428 Pages