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Product Description: Runes are the letters in a set of related alphabets that were used to write various Germanic languages before the adoption of the Latin alphabet. From late antiquity through the early middle ages, peoples across northwestern Europe inscribed runes on gravestones, buildings, jewelry, and weapons in a range of forms from crude scratchings to sophisticated relief carvings...read more

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9781606064481 | J Paul Getty Museum Pubns, April 1, 2015, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Runes are the letters in a set of related alphabets that were used to write various Germanic languages before the adoption of the Latin alphabet.

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This little volume provides a useful introduction and guide to the ancient runes of the Germanic peoples. It discusses the origins and meaning of all the known runes, and includes text and translations of rune poems and riddles from England, Norway amd Iceland, as well as two short essays on `The Norfolk TIW runes' and `The Brandon runes'.

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9781898281498 | Anglo-Saxon Books, December 31, 2008, cover price $9.95
9781898281160 | Anglo-Saxon Books, October 1, 1995, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: This little volume provides a useful introduction and guide to the ancient runes of the Germanic peoples.

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9780851157689 | 2nd edition (Boydell & Brewer Inc, February 1, 2000), cover price $60.00

Paperback:

9780851159461 | 2 edition (Boydell Pr, May 18, 2006), cover price $29.95

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9780198206439 | Oxford Univ Pr, February 15, 2001, cover price $190.00

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9780199262212 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, June 19, 2003, cover price $82.00

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Product Description: This volume of 23 essays on the subject of runes, ranges from detailed discussion of the forms of particular runes in the runic alphabet and the interpretations of individual inscriptions (the Rothwell Cross and the Franks casket), to the wider matters on which runes throw light, such as magic, paganism, literacy and linguistic change...read more

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9780851153872 | Boydell & Brewer Inc, September 1, 1995, cover price $89.00 | About this edition: This volume of 23 essays on the subject of runes, ranges from detailed discussion of the forms of particular runes in the runic alphabet and the interpretations of individual inscriptions (the Rothwell Cross and the Franks casket), to the wider matters on which runes throw light, such as magic, paganism, literacy and linguistic change.

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Product Description: From the beginnings of the scientific study of runes, questions concerning their magical nature have been raised. In this book Stephen Flowers puts this question in the context of current theories of magic for the first time. He approaches problems of runes and their connection to magical thinking from a structural standpoint based on linguistic models of communication...read more

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9780820403335 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, April 1, 1987, cover price $57.00 | About this edition: From the beginnings of the scientific study of runes, questions concerning their magical nature have been raised.

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9788748005785 | Aarhus Universitetsforlag, December 1, 1981, cover price $65.00

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