As one Viking poet put it, "Let no man carve runes to cast a spell, save first he learns to read them well." While many in the upper classes could read and write runes, the Vikings called in a specialist when dealing with the talismanic properties of their alphabet.
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Explore a Viking Village (Video); In these film clips of a 1:30 scale model, "walk" down the main street and "boat" through the harbor of Birka, ... See your name spelled in runes, learn the meaning of each of the letters in the Viking alphabet, and delve into the hoary history of the Norse writing system.
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It was the main alphabet in Norway, Sweden and Denmark throughout the Viking Age, but was largely though not completely replaced by the Latin alphabet by about 1200 as a result of the conversion of most of Scandinavia to Christianity.
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Some facts about runes ... Runes were the old alphabet of the vikings. ... Historians today are not sure of their origin, some say Denmark, some say by the coasts of the Black sea and others says northern Italy.
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See the review of Runes, Alphabet of Mystery in the March 2000 issue of "The Monthly Aspectarian". Mary Montgomery-Clifford reviews it in her column, "Cyber Weave-Spirituality and the Internet".
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