![]() ![]() ![]() Odin even tells of how he can raise the dead with his runic knowledge.įloki uses runes carved on antlers to cure Ragnar from disease. Victory in battle, love, protections of the gods, and the curing of disease could be achieved from runic magic. It was believed that runes had great magic within them and by carving, naming, and painting the runes correctly that magic could be invoked. Staring into the void beneath the tree he pulled up the runes. According to legend, Odin hung on the worldtree Yggdrasil for nine nights without food or drink. Neither is it known why the futhark was first invented, but Norse mythology paints an esoteric story. ![]() Why and when runes started to be considered to have magical abilities is still not known. Runes where used for everything from marks of a craftsman, to writing memory stones, simple messages, and magic. Although the use of the Younger Futhark eventually declined after the Christianization of Scandinavia, there were still living traditions of using a descendant of the Younger Futhark, the Dalecarlian runes, in remote areas of Scandinavia which continued into the 20th century. The Elder Futhark was phased out during the 8th century. The original Elder Futhark developed into the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc and the Younger Futhark, the latter was used for Old Norse, the language that was spoken by the Vikings. Like the Latin alphabet is called "alphabet" due to the first letters being alpha (A) and beta (B), a runic alphabet is called a futhark because it derives from their first six letters of the alphabet, "f," "u," "th," "a," "r," and "k." There are several futharks due to the changes in the languages of the Germanic peoples. They were probably inspired by the Latin alphabet, but took on their own significance among Germanic peoples. Runic inscriptions appeared first in Denmark in the first centuries AD. ![]()
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