I just saw someone saying that runes aren't magical but because they aren't magical that means that viking women "controlled writing and communication" in viking culture because it's known that women were in charge of Seidr (magic).....
I'm gonna go scream in a corner.
I'm gonna go scream in a corner.
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*Does runework*
*Knows magic is involved, because then they wouldnt work*
The 24 Elder Futhark runes were literally just letters. Letters with phonetic meanings that were meant for writing Old Norse, so there isn't even an accurate way to write in English them.
The individual magical meanings are literally a modern invention.
Traditional Seidr literally has/had nothing to do with rune magic since rune magic as we know it didn't EXIST until like 1500 years later.