1) Ancient alphabet characters 2) Ancient alphabetic characters 3) Ancient alphabetic symbols 4) Ancient characters 5) Ancient cryptic signs 6) Ancient Germanic letters 7) Ancient inscriptions 8) Ancient letter symbols 9) Ancient letters 10) Ancient Norse poems 11) Ancient Scandinavian poems 12) Ancient symbolic letters Found on https://www.crosswordclues.com/clue/runes
Runes (Proto-Norse: {runic|ᚱᚢᚾᛟ} (runo), Old Norse: rún) are the letters in a set of related alphabets known as runic alphabets, which were used to write various Germanic languages before the adoption of the Latin alphabet and for specialised purposes thereafter. The Scandinavian variants are also known as futhark or fuþark (derived from... Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runes
an alphabet used by the Anglo-Saxons and Norse people that modified Roman and Greek characters to facilitate carving in stone and wood
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Originally, the word rune denoted something occult or cryptic and early on became a synonym for knowledge and wisdom. Eventually the term came to denote the letters of the alphabet (the Futhorc) peculiar to the ancient Teutonic peoples of north west Europe. There are three runic alphabets; the Norse, with 16 characters, the Anglo-Saxon with 40 and ... Found on http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/browse/D4.HTM