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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.
My sources show an unbroken line of attestations from rūnian to rownen/rounen to rown/roun (the last link won't bring you directly to the word, you'll have to type in "roun"). Brits did forget about Futhorc for a time, but they kept using rune as a verb meaning "to whisper".
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").
3 Αυγ 2019 · Anglo-Saxon Runes. 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 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.
This article makes a great case for merging the corpus together based on our improved understanding of the runic traditions in the northern West Germanic cultural area and the close relations between Frisians and Anglo-Saxons during the Migration Era from the past two decades.
14 Αυγ 2020 · In this series of blog posts, I will be looking at the runes in the Anglo-Saxon tradition, known as the Anglo-Saxon or Old English Futhorc.
