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Revival
So are we reviving an ancient language here? Also is can we get a thread or make this thread a general information thread for Futhark?
Some other questions I have. Was this language before, during or after Old Norse was used widely? Did vikings or certain Germanic Tribes use this?
In order to establish the sort of healthy Futhark subculture that would enable us to leave cryptic inscriptions on internet image boards, university bulletin boards, and post-happening market squares we must standardize on one collection of runes so we can all read each other's posts.
As per the discussion here >>47, I think our best bet is to fix a system for consistently mapping English phonemes (sounds) to runes. I've put together a google doc to help us do just that:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1H-EkKjMBpD-kNJUuR_WLtDZY3F61VybmARXCkSpcYOw/edit
Once we settle on what runes we want to use, I can modify >>57 to make it easy to post in them.
If you want some guidance on which runes historically represented which sounds, check out the wikipedia page:
Hey everyone, im working on getting a keyboard layout working.
http://www.filedropper.com/elderfut
there's some files. trust them if you want to. its not complete, only lowercase is done and the "zxcvbnm" layer is messed up(everything is shifted left one) and I seem to have 1 more letter than keys on the keyboard, I don't know. can someone translate "zxcvbnm" to elder futhatk and print it out here and confirm it?
image is semi related(program im using)
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The rune poems
There are three surviving rune poems which make up the vast majority of the surviving lore of the runes from the time when they were the standard writing system of the Germanic peoples.
The Icelandic and Norwegian rune poems cover only the Younger Futhark. The Anglo-Saxon rune poem covers all of the runes of the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc, which is a superset of the Elder Futhark. So, for those runes that did not survive from the Elder Futhark to the Younger, the Anglo-Saxon rune poem is our only source.
Volunteers, banners, and flags.
Right so we need some stuff.
1. A volunteer that is lives in east NA and is up in the nights or west NA who is up late to enforce the rules.
2. Some ebin banners 300x100
3. Some ebin flags 11x20 or 11x16 I'm thinking the individual runes so I might open up shoop and get that going.