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Introduction to the use of runes as a practical script for a variety of purposes in Anglo-Saxon England. schovat popis

Hrsg. v. Graham-Campbell, James Unter a. v. Batey, Colleen ; Clarke, Helen ; Page, R. I. Aus dem Englischen von Kreutzer, Gert ; Kreutzer, Jens ( Bildatlas der Weltkulturen). Zahlr., tls. farb. Abb. und Ktn. 240 S.

Entertaining and sometimes horrifying legends of gods and goddesses, heroes and heroines, monsters and giants survive from pagan Scandinavia, even though the Norse were unable to write them down. With authority and wit, Professor Page retells the Norse legends and shows how complex and sometimes contradictory their traditions are.

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.