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Runes (Paperback)
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Runes (Paperback)
Series: Ancient languages
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List price R312
Loot Price R246
Discovery Miles 2 460
You Save R66 (21%)
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From late antiquity through to the early middle ages, people across
north-western Europe were inscribing runes on a range of different
objects. Once identified and interpreted by experts, runes provide
us with invaluable evidence for the early Germanic languages
including English, Dutch, German and the Scandinavian languages and
reveal a wealth of information about our early civilisations. Runes
employ many techniques from informal scratchings to sophisticated
inlaid designs on weapons, or the exquisite relief carvings of the
Franks Casket. The task of reading and understanding them involves
a good deal of detective-work, calling on expertise from a number
of academic disciplines: archaeology, art history, linguistics, and
even forensic science. This book tells the story of runes from
their mysterious origins, their development as a script, to their
use and meaning in the modern world. Illustrated with a range of
beautiful objects from jewellery to tools and weapons, Runes will
reveal memorials for the dead, business messages, charms and
curses, insults and prayers, giving us a glimpse into the languages
and cultures of Europeans over a thousand years ago.
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