Why do TV shows always write Old Norse in elder futhark?
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Replying to @d_christiansen
possibly because Tolkien used the related Anglo-Saxon Futhorc in his books, so lots of folks know that alphabet?
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Replying to @d6 @d_christiansen
This exchange has sent me down a Wikipedia rabbit hole and reminded me why I still keep looking at Twitter. Thanks :).
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Replying to @edwinbrady @d6
What's really wild is that they sometimes wrote with runes in Dalarna in Sweden in the 20th century. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalecarlian_runes …
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Aaaand I'm now in a YouTube rabbit hole of spoken Elfdalian samples
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Replying to @d_christiansen @d6
I'm at least going to be saved by having to get off the train shortly, and a tip off that there might be a visible aurora...
4:14 PM - 11 Oct 2017
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