Gothic Runes

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--- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, "rhoomegaphi" <rhoomegaphi at y...> 
wrote:
> Hi I haven't found a discussion here yet about the Gothic variety 
of 
> Runes. Is there an inscription somewhere that we could see how the 
> Goths wrote? 
> 
> I have found at www.omniglot.com something interesting about Gothic 
> Runes. Fraujo's Ahtu is the same as Freyja's Aett, and so is Teiws' 
> Ahtu to Tyr's Aett. Hagls' Ahtu however varies.  Btw, I don't know 
if 
> it's accurate or correct to apply the same information to the 
Gothic 
> Runes as the Vikings did when we refer to each eight as an aett. 
> 
> I don't know if it is right or not to think that the Gothic Runes 
> have the same meanings or not. At www.omniglot.com, the Gothic 
> Alphabet is also posted. If one could find out the meanings of 
those 
> names, which most are similar, then we could learn the meanings of 
> those runes. 
> 
> I really like the way that the Gothic runes are different from the 
> Elder Futhark in some of their designs. I have done searches on the 
> Gothic Runes, but I keep getting the same erroneous information 
that 
> the Gothic Futhark is the same as the Elder Futhark, but with one 
> extra rune.  This doesn't seem true according to the list of runes 
at 
> www.omniglot.com . I think I will e-mail both sources and ask for 
> references. 
> 
> But if anyone can contribute to this discussion, please do.
> 
> Thanks.






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