History of runic alphabets

But in 1018 Toledian counsel decreed to prohibit all runic alphabets as vane and pagan ones.This tradition was inherited by Etruscan alphabet and later by runic one.For instance, runes were used in calendars till the end of the 18-th c.Runes were the personification of the surrounding world, essence of outlook.In Anglo-Saxon England the hours of king council were called runes.They were two missionaries who discovered these manuscripts in the time of Christian expansion.Every rune in it conforms to one strophe, which begins with this rune and its name.In its turn, the name begins with its sound.The top of development and complete formation of RA system was in 1-2 c. AD.In Northumberland 33 rune system existed already, with the mixture of Celtic runes.