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Runes: Reading the Past books Since prehistoric times humans haveIn Orkney, Shetland, and the Scottish Islands, in Ireland, the Isle of Man, and above all in Scandinavia, travelers still come upon great memorial stones, inscribed with the curious angular alphabet called runes. Rune masters also cut their letters on other objects, including swords, brooches, pendants, and rings. They even wrote letters in runes on sticks of wood. This book tells the story of runes from the earliest Continental carvings of the late