num_pages: 64
description: In Orkney, Shetland and the Scottish Islands, in Ireland, the Isle of Man and above all in Scandinavia, travelers still come upon great memorial stones, inscribed with the curious angular alphabet called runes. This is the story of these inscriptions from the earliest Continental carvings of the late second century A.D. through to the Viking age.
language: English
title: Runes
titlecomplete: Runes (Reading the Past)
genres: Witchcraft, Language, History, Linguistics, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 107
publisher: University of California Press