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futhark

Also futharc,

[foo-thahrk]

noun

  1. the runic alphabet.



futhark

/ ˈfuːθɑːk, ˈfuːθɔːk /

noun

  1. a phonetic alphabet consisting of runes

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of futhark1

1850–55; so called from first six letters of Old English and Scand runic alphabet: f, u, th, a (or o ), r, k (modeled on alphabet )
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Word History and Origins

Origin of futhark1

C19: from the first six letters: f, u, th, a, r, k ; compare alphabet
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Example Sentences

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However, it seems that the second runic character is a short-twig “A” from the “Younger Futhark.”

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Runes carved on the stone belong to a runic alphabet known as the “Elder Futhark,” a variant out of use long before the Viking voyages to North America, a fact apparently unknown to the person who carved them in Oklahoma.

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Inscribed on the bone are six of the last eight runes from a 24-letter alphabet known as Old Futhark, the oldest runic alphabet used by Germanic tribes during the first half of the first millennium.

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“Just writing out the ‘futhark,’ all sixteen Viking runes in order like an alphabet, was a good-luck charm.”

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Pic by English Heritage This week's events within Lindisfarne's "ancient monastery's halls" include Uruz, a replica Viking longship, complete with carved wooden figurehead, which arrived on Monday and will be displayed all week. , named after the second character of the futhark, or runic alphabet, is 30 foot long and would have held a reasonable-sized raiding party.

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