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The Fubark-A Germanic Alphabet

Lecture no. 4 from the course: Writing and Civilization: From Ancient Worlds to Modernity

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Taught by Professor Marc Zender | 30 min | Categories: Literature & Language

Runes are often mistakenly thought to be a semimagical system of signs used for divination and ritual, but nothing could be further from the truth. Look at the real history of the Runic alphabet-also known as the Fuþark -as a case study for why writing systems rise and fall.
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