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Pagan ‘Witch runes’, there is only historical documentation of three true sets of runes. The three historic runic types are those of the Elder Futhark, the Younger Futhark and the Anglo-Frisian Futhark. There exists also the Armanen Futhorc of Guido von List’s esoteric development, although this
Anglo-Saxon runes are an extended version of Elder Futhark consisting of between 26 and 33 letters. It is thought that they were used to write Old English / Anglo-Saxon and Old Frisian from about the 5th century AD.
Page lays out an almost exhaustive introduction to the Anglo-Saxon runes and runic inscriptions on stones, coins, manuscripts, and other materials. This book makes for an excellent addition to a well-rounded runic library.
These are runes ior for ‘io’, cweorþ for ‘q’ and stan for ’st’. A special place among Anglo-Saxon Futhorc inscriptions belongs to the 8th century Ruthwell Cross with 320 runes, containing portions of the poem known as The Dream of the Rood preserved in the so-called Vercelli Book.
The Anglo-Saxon runes or Anglo-Frisian runes are collectively known as the Futhorc because those are the first letters of that runic alphabet. The earliest form of the Futhorc looked almost exactly like the Elder Futhark with three more runes in the 5th century.
Anglo-Saxon runes or Anglo-Frisian runes are runes that were used by the Anglo-Saxons and Medieval Frisians (collectively called Anglo-Frisians) as an alphabet in their native writing system, recording both Old English and Old Frisian (Old English: rūna, ᚱᚢᚾᚪ, "rune").
0:50 Mostly this was a decision made out of brevity, because I came at this as an Anglo-Saxon specialist and my notes were already extensive, but I'll have to come back to medieval runes proper at some point! 3:29 You're probably right there, I should have said that it was shaped heavily by being written on paper rather than developed for it
