runic character mapping (v2)

What's Runic Script

Runic Script were used for several rune alphabets around year 150 to 1500.

Rune alphabets was used to write various Germanic languages before the adoption of the Latin alphabet.

Germanic languages includes:

• North Germanic: Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Icelandic, Faroese.
• West Germanic: English, German, Dutch.
• East Germanic (extinct): Gothic.

4 major Runic alphabets are:

• Elder Futhark. Used around year 100 to 800.
• Anglo-Saxon runes. Used around year 400 to 1100.
• Younger Futhark. Used around year 900 to 1100. It has 2 variants, called Long-branch and short-twig.
• Medieval runes. Used around year 1100 to 1500.

Note, there's also Tolkien rune. It is based on Anglo-Saxon rune and used in the novel the Hobbit. (11096r-n4013r-runic-additions.pdf)