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The Runology WikiProject is a collaboration area and project dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of the function, history, culture, and language, of "runes", the indigenous writing system of the Germanic peoples, which was in active use throughout various iterations and various regions from around the Roman Iron Age to the Late Middle Ages, with various archaic and learned use beyond. This academic area is called "runology" (the "study of runes and runic alphabets" etc).
Basic chronology
*400–1 BC | *Old Italic scripts | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1–300 AD | Germanic 24-type Elder Futhark | Gothic alphabet | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
400–550 AD | Anglo-Frisian use | Saxon/German use | Proto-Norse use | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
550–750 AD | Anglo-Frisian 28-type Futhark | Saxon/German use | Norse 25-type Late Elder Futhark | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
750–1000 AD | Anglo-Saxon 32-type Futhark | Norse 16-type Younger Futhark | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1000–1200 AD | Old English archaic use | Norse 16-type Stung Futhark | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1200–1500 AD | Norse Medieval Futhark | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1500–1800 AD | Dalecarlian runes | Renaissance runes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1800–1900+ AD | Kensington runes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Participants
Articles to be made and expanded
- Stung runes (currently a redirect to Medieval runes), translate sv:Stungna runor
- Runic – an article covering Runic grammar?
De-topic articles to be made and expanded
Due to the imense appropriation of runes, such concepts requires their own articles as well to separate them from runes proper.
SS runes
- Eif (SS rune)
- Ger (SS rune)
- Hagall (SS rune)
- Heilszeichen
- Lebensrune (needs own article)
- Odal (SS rune)
- Opfer (SS rune)
- Sig (SS rune)
- Todesrune (needs own article)
- Tyr (SS rune)
- Wolfsangel (SS rune)
Neopaganism
- Runic divination (currently a redirect to Runic magic)
Updated and written articles
Relevant articles
See Category:Runology.
