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What are the futhark runes ? the Meaning The runic alphabet or futhark - a term formed from the name of the first six letters of this alphabet, is the alphabet used by peoples of Germanic culture and civilization such as the Germanic peoples of the continent (Western Germanic) to write proto-Germanic the ancestor common to all Germanic languages, such as the languages of German and English for example. But the runes were also used to write the Old Norse of the Scandinavians, and the Frisian…

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an ancient alphabet with numbers and numerals

In the Vikings' runic inscriptions, we do find numbers written down, but it's very rare. Usually numbers are spelled out as whole words, although on rare occasion the first letter of the number-word is used to stand for the number. And very uncommon, on occasion, the Vikings would use the runic letters to stand for a numeral. So the Uruz u rune for auroch may be the letter u or the number 2. Or Fehu f rune for wealth may be the letter f or the number 1. Later a tally like system developed…

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