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Definition of Futhorc
1. n. The Runic alphabet; -- so called from the six letters f, u, þ (th), o (or a), r, c (=k).
Definition of Futhorc
1. Noun. The Runic alphabet as used to write Old English. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Futhorc
1. futhark [n -S] - See also: futhark
Lexicographical Neighbors of Futhorc
Literary usage of Futhorc
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Conquest of Britain by the Saxons: A Harmony of the "Historia Britonum by Daniel Henry Haigh (1861)
"In this futhorc there are some important differences in the forms of the ...
Traces remain of the use, in Northumbria, of a futhorc distinct from all the ..."
2. Greeks and Goths: A Study on the Runes by Isaac Taylor (1879)
"THE futhorc AND THE ALPHABET. To close the remaining links in the chain of the
... We have only to examine how the runes of the earliest Gothic futhorc, ..."
3. Management Desk Alliance/Leicest by HarperCollins Publishers Limited, Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society (1887)
"THE FYLFOT AND THE futhorc TIR. BY H. COLLEY MARCH, MD IN the last volume (48 ii.)
of the Archa:ologia, published by the Society of Antiquaries, ..."
4. Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society by Yorkshire Geological Society (1870)
"The futhorc and S. Gallen alphabet agree as to the form of the 15th ; the Munich
... The futhorc gives to the 20th rune the form which in all inscriptions ..."
5. The Yorkshire Archaeological Journal by Yorkshire Archaeological Society (1875)
"Now, as the Norse futhorc consists of three classe-i, six runes in the first,
and five in each of the others, their writing of this kind would be I. 1 to I. ..."
6. Archaeologia Cantiana by Kent Archaeological Society (1872)
"I must now call my reader's attention to a futhorc in MS. ... 878, above referred
to ; and, as that alphabet is followed by the futhorc b, which is called ..."
7. Origins of the English People and the English Language by Jean Roemer (1888)
"of the Anglian futhorc, which is used on the Ruth well Cross and on several ...
It is given as a futhorc in sundry manuscripts of the eighth and ninth ..."
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