Runes - Modern Use

Modern Use

Runic alphabets have seen numerous uses since the 18th century Viking revival, in Scandinavian Romantic nationalism (Gothicismus) and Germanic occultism in the 19th century, and in the context of the Fantasy genre and of Germanic Neopaganism in the 20th century.

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