[gothic-l] Re: Gothic Runes

[Tore Gannholm]

You can find the full elder Futhark on the Kylver stone from Stånga in 
Gotland 4th century.

http://www.stavgard.com/Gotland/historia_/kylverstenen/default.htm

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Tore


On May 31, 2005, at 10:35 AM, Francisc Czobor wrote:

> I also knew that the Goths used the elder Futhark, a script that was
>  common to all early Germanic tribes. Only in Scandinavia the elder
>  Futhark was later replaced by the younger futhark.
>  In any case, all runic inscription attributed to the Goths are, as
>  far as I know, in the elder Futhark.
>
>  Francisc
>
>
>  --- 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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