Runic Calendar

My apologies for the flash in some of the museum photos, I'd rather show you glared photos than none at all.

This 17th century oblong Norwegian calendar is like a clog almanac but it also has Runic lettering. Early Greek settlers had spread their alphabet throughout the world where it was often adapted into a local form, such as Etruscan, Gothic, Coptic and, in northern Europe, Runic. none of these are in use today. But the angular form of runes made them easy to cut and Scandinavian and Anglo-Saxon runes from the 4th to 14th centuries, on wood, stone and brooches provided a wealth of material for Enlightenment scholars to decipher.