Rune

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Runes were a means of recording information onto hard surfaces, such as metal, stone or horn. For simplicity of form and production, they tended to be made up of straight lines, rather then curves. The runes in the basic runic alphabet -- the "Futhark " (so called because these were the first 6 letters f, u,