Chapter 6 Age and origin of the fuþark

Chapters in this book

1. I-XXII I
2. Chapter 1 What is runology? 1
3. Chapter 2 The oldest recorded Germanic 17
4. Chapter 3 The earliest Germanic writing system 37
5. Chapter 4 The graphemic system of the older runes 51
6. Chapter 5 The fifteenth rune 73
7. Chapter 6 Age and origin of the fuþark 93
8. Chapter 7 Reading runic inscriptions 119
9. Chapter 8 Dating runic inscriptions 149
10. Chapter 9 Sacral or secular? 169
11. Chapter 10 Runic typology 207
12. Chapter 11 Phonological rules and paradigms 237
13. Chapter 12 Some controversial grammatical forms 261
14. Chapter 13 Runic syntax 285
15. Chapter 14 “Archaicizing” inscriptions 297
16. Chapter 15 The Weser runebones 315
17. Chapter 16 Old English digraphic spellings 329
18. References 343
19. Index of inscriptions 367
20. Index of runic words 371
21. Index of names 375
22. Index of subjects 379