Old English rune poem
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old-english-rune-poem-286-1921597
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Old English rune poem
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The Old English rune poem, dated to the 8th or 9th century, has stanzas on 29 Anglo-Saxon runes.
It stands alongside younger rune poems from Scandinavia, which record the names of the 16 Younger Futhark runes. The poem is a product of the period of declining vitality of the runic script in Anglo-Saxon England after the Christianization of the 7th century. A large body of scholarship has been devoted to the poem, mostly dedicated to its importance for runology but to a lesser extent also to the c
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A poem in Old English about the runic alphabet
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2024-04-16T18:32:07Z
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