Talk:Rune poem
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Is there a reason no one has put up a copy of the rune poems yet? Yasha
"Prominently" might be a bit overstated. But thanks for the clue by four. ;-)
DOes any one know the origin of the poems? As in where the documents were found, on clay or paper, etc? Seems everywhere I look I find nothing.
[edit] Trees & Ogham?
I don't think this is necessarily correct:
"The fact that some Anglo-Saxon runes were given names of trees (ᛇ Eoh "yew", ᚪ Ac "oak", ᚫ Æsc "ash", c. f. also AS thorn vs. Norse thurs) may be related to the names of the Ogham signs, all of which are called after trees."
According to some Ogham experts, notably Peter Berresford Ellis, Ogham signs were not all named after trees. Here is a link to an article by Ellis that elaborates.
http://cura.free.fr/xv/13ellis2.html
There was lively discussion of the whole "tree" thing on the main page for Ogham, and it was more or less agreed that the arboreal connection should be presented pro and con.
Suggest we put a "." after "signs" and strike the "all of which were named after trees" from this article.
--dragonflykarate 13:01, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Character encoding
What character encoding do I need to use to see these runes? In UTF-8 (for me), they all appear as question-marks. - Casey
- Hi Casey. You need to install Junicode or another font which has the runic range. We're still ironing out the bugs to maximize viewability for the largest amount of readers. - WeniWidiWiki 05:44, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
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- Thanks! - Casey 71.56.223.2 01:14, 15 January 2007 (UTC)
