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An Introduction to English Runes
R.I. Page
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Description for An Introduction to English Runes
Paperback. Provides introduction to the use of runes as a practical script for a variety of purposes in Anglo-Saxon England. Num Pages: 268 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2ABA; 3F; 3H; CFL; CFP; DS; HDD; WFU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 157 x 15. Weight in Grams: 414. 268 pages, black & white illustrations. Provides introduction to the use of runes as a practical script for a variety of purposes in Anglo-Saxon England. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2ABA; 3F; 3H; CFL; CFP; DS; HDD; WFU. Dimension: 235 x 157 x 15. Weight: 396.
Runes are quite frequently mentioned in modern writings, usually imprecisely as a source of mystic knowledge, power or insight. This book sets the record straight. It shows runes working as a practical script for a variety of purposes in early English times, among both indigenous Anglo-Saxons and incoming Vikings. In a scholarly yet readable way it examines the introduction of the runic alphabet (the futhorc) to England in the fifth and sixth centuries, the forms and values of its letters, and the ways in which it developed, up until its decline at the end of the Anglo-Saxon period. It discusses ... Read more
Runes are quite frequently mentioned in modern writings, usually imprecisely as a source of mystic knowledge, power or insight. This book sets the record straight. It shows runes working as a practical script for a variety of purposes in early English times, among both indigenous Anglo-Saxons and incoming Vikings. In a scholarly yet readable way it examines the introduction of the runic alphabet (the futhorc) to England in the fifth and sixth centuries, the forms and values of its letters, and the ways in which it developed, up until its decline at the end of the Anglo-Saxon period. It discusses ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Boydell Press
Number of pages
268
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Woodbridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780851159461
SKU
V9780851159461
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Ref
99-18
About R.I. Page
Professor R.I. PAGE is former Elrington and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon in the University of Cambridge, and Librarian of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.
Reviews for An Introduction to English Runes
Remains the only book-length study providing a comprehensive and scholarly guide to the Anglo-Saxon use of runes. The new edition has been substantially updated and expanded...No serious library of Anglo-Saxon studies should be without it. JOURNAL OF ENGLISH AND GERMANIC PHILOLOGY [John Hines]