[gothic-l] Re: Gothic Runes

[Francisc Czobor]

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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