Proposed Reading list

Proposed reading list for the study of ancient runes.

Looijenga, Tineke. Texts and contexts of the oldest runic inscriptions. Leiden, NLD. Brill academic publishers, 2003.


Williams, Henrik. “The Origin of the Runes.” Amsterdamer Beitrage Zur alteren Germanistik 45 (1996) 211-218.


Moltke, Erik. Runes and their origin: Denmark and Elsewhere. Translated by P.G. Foote. Copenhagen: National Museum of Denmark, 1985.

Antonsen, Elmer H. “The Runes: the Earliest Germanic Writing system.” Edited by  W.M. Senner. Omaha: University of Nebraska Press. (1989) pg. 137-158

Bowman, Alan K. Life and Letters on the Roman Frontier. New York: Routledge, 1994.

Dahm, Murray K. “The roman frontier signaling and the order of the Futhark.” The Journal Of Indo-European Studies 39 (2011) 1-12.

Elliot, Ralph W.V.. Runes an introduction. Manchester: Machester University press, 1989.

Page, Raymond I. An Introduction to English runes. Woodbridge Suffolk, UK: Boydell Press, 1999.

____. Runes and Runic Inscriptions: collected essays on Anglo-Saxon and Viking Runes. Woodbridge Suffolk, UK: Boydell Press 1995

Stephens, George. Handbook of the old northern Runic Monuments of Scandinavia and England. London: Williams and norgate, 1884.

____. “reasons for Runes.” The First writing: script invention as History and Process. Edited by S. Houston. New York: Cambridge University Press (2004) 262-273