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The origin of runes

What is it about?

This article provides solid arguments supporting the view that the elder-futhark runes are, in origin, an adaptation of the Greek alphabet as used by Gauls to write Gaulish (with some minor influence from the Roman alphabet), likely dating to the middle of the last century BC.

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Edmund Fairfax

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