Author: Michael P. Barnes
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ISBN: 9780903521970
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The Runic Inscriptions of the Isle of Man
Author: Michael P. Barnes
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ISBN: 9780903521970
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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ISBN: 9780903521970
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Publications
Author: Manx Society
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Languages : en
Pages : 224
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Languages : en
Pages : 224
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Archaeologia Cambrensis
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Languages : en
Pages : 676
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Languages : en
Pages : 676
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Archaeologia Cambrensis
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 434
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 434
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Runes
Author: Michael P. Barnes
Publisher: Boydell Press
ISBN: 1843837781
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 258
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Offers a full introduction to and survey of runes and runology: their history, how they were used, and their interpretation. Runes, often considered magical symbols of mystery and power, are in fact an alphabetic form of writing. Derived from one or more Mediterranean prototypes, they were used by Germanic peoples to write different kinds of Germanic language, principally Anglo-Saxon and the various Scandinavian idioms, and were carved into stone, wood, bone, metal, and other hard surfaces; types of inscription range from memorials to the dead, through Christian prayers and everyday messages to crude graffiti. First reliably attested in the second century AD, runes were in due course supplanted by the roman alphabet, though in Anglo-Saxon England they continued in use until the early eleventh century, inScandinavia until the fifteenth (and later still in one or two outlying areas). This book provides an accessible, general account of runes and runic writing from their inception to their final demise. It also covers modern uses of runes, and deals with such topics as encoded texts, rune names, how runic inscriptions were made, runological method, and the history of runic research. A final chapter explains where those keen to see runic inscriptions can most easily find them. Professor MICHAEL P, BARNES is Emeritus Professor of Scandinavian Studies, University College London.
Publisher: Boydell Press
ISBN: 1843837781
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Offers a full introduction to and survey of runes and runology: their history, how they were used, and their interpretation. Runes, often considered magical symbols of mystery and power, are in fact an alphabetic form of writing. Derived from one or more Mediterranean prototypes, they were used by Germanic peoples to write different kinds of Germanic language, principally Anglo-Saxon and the various Scandinavian idioms, and were carved into stone, wood, bone, metal, and other hard surfaces; types of inscription range from memorials to the dead, through Christian prayers and everyday messages to crude graffiti. First reliably attested in the second century AD, runes were in due course supplanted by the roman alphabet, though in Anglo-Saxon England they continued in use until the early eleventh century, inScandinavia until the fifteenth (and later still in one or two outlying areas). This book provides an accessible, general account of runes and runic writing from their inception to their final demise. It also covers modern uses of runes, and deals with such topics as encoded texts, rune names, how runic inscriptions were made, runological method, and the history of runic research. A final chapter explains where those keen to see runic inscriptions can most easily find them. Professor MICHAEL P, BARNES is Emeritus Professor of Scandinavian Studies, University College London.
Catalogue
Author: Bernard Quaritch (Firm)
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Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 1200
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Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 1200
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An Anglo-Saxon and Celtic Bibliography (450-1087).
Author: Wilfrid Bonser
Publisher: Univ of California Press
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 620
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Publisher: Univ of California Press
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 620
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The Register, and Magazine of Biography
Author: Thompson Cooper
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752503475
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1869.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752503475
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1869.
The Register, and Magazine of Biography
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Languages : en
Pages : 604
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Languages : en
Pages : 604
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Nelson's Encyclopaedia
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 692
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 692
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