Runology

Children being taught a runic alphabet (1555), from Olaus Magnus's Historia de gentibus septentrionalibus

Runology is the study of the Runic alphabets, Runic inscriptions, and their history. Runology forms a specialized branch of Germanic linguistics.[1][2][3]

  1. ^ "Definition of RUNOLOGY". www.merriam-webster.com.
  2. ^ Bäckvall, Maja (25 September 2018). "Episode 1: Basics of runology and the origins of runic writing".
  3. ^ Schulte, Michael (1 May 2015). "Runology and historical sociolinguistics: On runic writing and its social history in the first millennium". Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics. 1 (1): 87–110. doi:10.1515/jhsl-2015-0004. S2CID 162692466.