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Ongunkan Icelandic Runic

Ongunkan Icelandic Runic

by Runic World Tamgacı
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Ongunkan Icelandic Runic Font Family was designed by Osman Nuri ALKAN and published by Runic World Tamgacı. Ongunkan Icelandic Runic contains 1 styles.

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About Ongunkan Icelandic Runic Font Family


Icelandic runes developed in a slightly different way than Scandinavian. While common people in Scandinavia kept the runes as a writing system through the middle ages, Icelanders seem to have adopted the Latin alphabet quickly after conversion. They didn’t forget about the runes however, but preserved the knowledge in manuscript books that were copied again and again for hundreds of years.

To make the runes compatible with Latin letters, a man called Þóroddr rúnameistari is said to have made a runic reform that added some runes in the early 12th century. Later, the stung runes were added, maybe inspired by the runic renaissance of Valdemar sejr of Denmark. Amongst the earliest preserved texts on runes is the Third Grammatical Treatise, probably by Óláfr hvítaskáld, a nephew of Snorri Sturluson. It deals with rune phonetics and spelling amongst other things.

Designers: Osman Nuri ALKAN

Publisher: Runic World Tamgacı

Foundry: Runic World Tamgacı

Design Owner: Runic World Tamgacı

MyFonts debut: Mar 20, 2024

Ongunkan Icelandic Runic

About Runic World Tamgacı

As my interest in runic scripts increased, it became imperative to make my own fonts. It was time to put all these years of hard work into flesh and blood.This foundry, with the name of runic world tamgacı, has been prepared as a platform to distribute font works developed on Old European Runic inscriptions, Old Asian Runic inscriptions, Old Hungarian Runic inscriptions, Runic inscriptions found in Africa and Arabian geography, and italic inscriptions such as Etruscan and Iberian. With new additions, the inventory of the foundry will be constantly updated and expanded. These Runic studies were made from scratch by looking at the relevant sources.

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