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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.
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Reading the Past. Runes, Raymond Ian Page
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- 1987
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- Title
- Reading the Past. Runes
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Raymond Ian Page
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Released
- 1987
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 0520061144
- ISBN13
- 9780520061149
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Historical Themes, History, Religion & Spirituality, New Age & Spirituality, Divination, Runes
- Rating
- 3.8 out of 5
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- 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.