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Runes / R.I. Page.
Penn Museum Library PD2013 .P34 1987
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Page, R. I. (Raymond Ian)
- Series:
- Reading the past
- Reading the past.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Runes.
- Inscriptions, Runic--Scandinavia.
- Inscriptions, Runic.
- Inscriptions, Runic--Great Britain.
- Inscriptions, Runic--North America.
- North America.
- Great Britain.
- Scandinavia.
- Physical Description:
- 64 pages : illustrations ; 24cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley, CA : University of California Press ; [London] : British Museum, 1987.
- Summary:
- In 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. This is the story of these inscriptions from the earliest Continental carvings of the late second century A.D. through to the Viking age.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Bibliographical note : page 63.
- ISBN:
- 0520061144
- OCLC:
- 15317653
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