The Anglo Saxon Runes

Sep 23, 2020 · 13m
The Anglo Saxon Runes
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Anglo Saxon Runes The word RUNE means secret or mystery. Runes had a religious meaning and were used in religious ceremonies. They were a charm or a spell as well...

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Anglo Saxon Runes
The word RUNE means secret or mystery. Runes had a religious meaning and were used in religious ceremonies. They were a charm or a spell as well as a way of writing messages.
The Anglo-Saxons believed that if you used the right runes in the right order, they could have magical powers. For example, a prisoner could magically release himself by carving certain runes

You can see that some of the runes are quite like capital letters:

Some are easier to guess if you turn them upside down,

although some are not at all what you might expect:

writan (= to carve runes) and ridan (= to interpret runes) became our words write and read.
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Author Frank Docherty
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