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A098476
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Unicode codes for the lunation runes, used in certain medieval Scandinavian perpetual calendar staves as golden numbers 1-19.
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1
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5792, 5794, 5798, 5805, 5809, 5812, 5820, 5823, 5825, 5830, 5835, 5839, 5842, 5850, 5848, 5862, 5870, 5871, 5872
(list;
graph;
refs;
listen;
history;
text;
internal format)
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OFFSET
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1,1
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COMMENTS
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This order of runes with these graphic forms is used in many rune staves in the collections of the National Museum of Finland. Note that the first sixteen of them make up the so-called younger futhark (runic alphabet), but with the fourteenth and fifteenth runes (codes 5850 and 5848, i.e. ᛚ (L) ᛘ (M)) having swapped their places from the usual m-l order:
ᚠ (F), ᚢ (U), ᚦ (Th), ᚭ (O), ᚱ (R), ᚴ (K), ᚼ (H), ᚿ (N),
ᛁ (I), ᛆ (A), ᛋ (S), ᛏ (T), ᛒ (B), ᛚ (L), ᛘ (M), ᛦ (Y),
The last three lunation runes were ligatures, coined to make up the full 1-19 set: ᛮ (ARLAUG), ᛯ (TVIMADUR), ᛰ (BELGTHOR)
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REFERENCES
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R. W. V. Elliott, Runes: An Introduction, St Martin's Press; 2nd edition, 1989.
R. W. V. Elliott, The Runic Script, in The World's Writing Systems, edited by Peter T. Daniels and William Bright, Oxford Univ. Press, 1996. p. 333-339.
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LINKS
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Wikipedia, Computus (information about the Metonic cycle and lunar calendars)
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CROSSREFS
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KEYWORD
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fini,full,nonn,word
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AUTHOR
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STATUS
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approved
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