In the eighth century, the UU form was temporarily replaced by ƿ (wynn), a character from the runic alphabet used in Old English. For a while, wynn became the standard symbol for W. That is ...

Early Vikings used a complex runic system called a futhark.It gets its name from the sounds made by the first six of its 24 characters: f, u, th, a, r and k (not unlike how our own alphabet got ...

One section of the artifact is carved with the first three characters of the runic alphabet. Eight runes on the front of the stone spell “idiberug” when converted into Roman letters.

Of the several thousand stones with runic inscriptions found in Scandinavia, only about 30 rune stones have been found in Norway are believed to date back to the Roman Iron Age and the Migration ...