INTRO / question about elder futhark

[gerhard sollinger]

Hails

I´m male, 56 & write from Spain. I´m not an academic but rather interested in learning gothish for fun & practical reasons. At the moment, I´m still an absolute beginner. 
Wolfgang Binnig in his book - Gotisches Elementarbuch  describes Wulfilla´s bible-gothish as a quiet unique event, because it represents for him, the first counsciently constructed monolithic language in man´s history. Obviously the gothic letters represents a fusion of mainly greek letters  with some runic symbols. 
He refers later on to some researchers in the field of Rune-studies, who think, that the Rune-alphabet of the old futhark respresented the older alphabet of the, by than still pagan Goths. 
What are your opinions about it?

With warm greetings

Gerhard


       
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