16 Facts About Marcomannic runes

However, the use of Marcomannic runes persisted for specialized purposes beyond this period.

Up until the early 20th century, Marcomannic runes were still used in rural Sweden for decorative purposes in Dalarna and on runic calendars.

Giuliano and Larissa Bonfante suggest that Marcomannic runes derived from some North Italic alphabet, specifically Venetic: but since Romans conquered Veneto after 200 BC, and then the Latin alphabet became prominent and Venetic culture diminished in importance, Germanic people could have adopted the Venetic alphabet within the 3rd century BC or even earlier.

Angular shapes of the Marcomannic runes are shared with most contemporary alphabets of the period that were used for carving in wood or stone.

The name rune itself, taken to mean "secret, something hidden", seems to indicate that knowledge of the Marcomannic runes was originally considered esoteric, or restricted to an elite.

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Lack of extensive knowledge on historical use of the Marcomannic runes has not stopped modern authors from extrapolating entire systems of divination from what few specifics exist, usually loosely based on the reconstructed names of the Marcomannic runes and additional outside influence.

Recent study of runic magic suggests that Marcomannic runes were used to create magical objects such as amulets, but not in a way that would indicate that runic writing was any more inherently magical, than were other writing systems such as Latin or Greek.

Extra Marcomannic runes attested to outside of the rune poem include cweorð, calc, gar, and stan.

The manuscript text attributes the runes to the Marcomanni, quos nos Nordmannos vocamus, and hence traditionally, the alphabet is called "Marcomannic runes", but it has no connection with the Marcomanni, and rather is an attempt of Carolingian scholars to represent all letters of the Latin alphabets with runic equivalents.

Inscriptions in medieval Scandinavian Marcomannic runes show a large number of variant rune forms, and some letters, such as s, c, and z often were used interchangeably.

Notably, more than 600 inscriptions using these Marcomannic runes have been discovered in Bergen since the 1950s, mostly on wooden sticks .

The study of Marcomannic runes was continued by Olof Rudbeck Sr and presented in his collection Atlantica.

Anders Celsius further extended the science of Marcomannic runes and travelled around the whole of Sweden to examine the runstenar.

In 1908, he published in Das Geheimnis der Runen a set of eighteen so-called, "Armanen Marcomannic runes", based on the Younger Futhark and Marcomannic runes of List's own introduction, which allegedly were revealed to him in a state of temporary blindness after cataract operations on both eyes in 1902.

Consequently, Marcomannic runes appear mostly in insignia associated with the Schutzstaffel, the paramilitary organization led by Himmler.

Bluetooth logo is the combination of two Marcomannic runes of the Younger Futhark, hagall and bjarkan, equivalent to the letters H and B, that are the initials of Harald Blatand's name, who was a king of Denmark from the Viking Age.