Brown, G. Baldwin (Gerard Baldwin), 1849-1932, Webster, A. Blyth (Adam Blyth), 1882-1956, Sexton, Eric H. L. (Eric Hyde Lord), 1902-1980 · London, J. Murray · leaf 299
the Greek, and to a lesser extent the Latin, Alphabetto form the so-called runic Futhorc, a set of characters 1 Kondakoff, Tolstoi, and S. Reinach, Jntiquites de la Russie Meridmiale,Paris, 1891, is che most accessible standard work on all this subject, but thereis a considerable literature on it… … All Continental INVENTION OF RUNIC WRITING 525 specially adapted for incision in wood that was the first appar-atus of writing among the Teutonic peoples. The runicFuthorc of 24 letters was probably invented or evolved amongthe Goths north of the Euxine about 200 a.d., and was beforelong…
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