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Runes: A Handbook
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This is a scholarly handbook of runic writing built from the documented epigraphic corpus itself, the several thousand surviving runic inscriptions from Scandinavia and the British Isles, rather than from later reconstructions of what runes might have meant. Its author is a specialist in runology, the discipline that reads and dates these inscriptions directly. What the atlas can verify about its standing is its continued use as a working reference in the field rather than a documented history of specific corrections to earlier editions, which this record has not independently traced. It is the right source for the historical form, use and decipherment of runic writing, grounded in inscriptions a reader could in principle go and check. It is not a source on the divinatory or magical use of runes claimed by modern practitioners, a separate and much later development that needs its own separate source rather than being read back into the epigraphic record.
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AuthorMichael P. Barnes
PublisherThe Boydell Press
Publication Year2012
URLhttps://www.abebooks.com/9781843837787/Runes-Handbook-Barnes-Michael-P-1843837781/plp
Source Typeacademic monograph
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Reliability Tier1
A standard scholarly handbook of runic writing and inscriptions, published by an academic press specialising in medieval studies. NotesStandard scholarly handbook of runic writing and inscriptions.
Claims Backed By This Source (761 claims)
This source backs 761 claims across the atlas. As facts: 597 well-attested, 2 popular myth - corrected. As cited relationships: 57 holds. Plus 105 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
Disposition By Topic
- Runes, 264 claims: 240 well-attested, 24 general references.
- Younger Futhark Runes, 160 claims: 112 well-attested, 32 holds, 16 general references.
- Articles, 95 claims: 91 well-attested, 4 general references.
- Armanen Runes, 90 claims: 72 well-attested, 18 general references.
- Anglo-Saxon Futhorc Runes, 58 claims: 29 well-attested, 29 general references.
- Rune Aetts, 39 claims: 12 well-attested, 24 holds, 3 general references.
- Categories, 16 claims: 14 well-attested, 2 general references.
- Rituals, 13 claims: 10 well-attested, 2 popular myth - corrected, 1 general references.
- Scripts & Magical Alphabets, 11 claims: 7 well-attested, 4 general references.
- Sources, 8 claims: 8 well-attested.
- Disciplines, 4 claims: 2 well-attested, 1 holds, 1 general references.
- Esoteric Texts, 1 claims: 1 general references.
- Historical Figures, 1 claims: 1 general references.
- Regions, 1 claims: 1 general references.
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597Anglo-Saxon Futhorc Runes
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Popular myth - corrected
2General References
105Anglo-Saxon Futhorc Runes
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