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A098476
Unicode codes for the lunation runes, used in certain medieval Scandinavian perpetual calendar staves as golden numbers 1-19.
1
5792, 5794, 5798, 5805, 5809, 5812, 5820, 5823, 5825, 5830, 5835, 5839, 5842, 5850, 5848, 5862, 5870, 5871, 5872
OFFSET
1,1
COMMENTS
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), &#5872 (BELGTHOR)
REFERENCES
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.
LINKS
G. Henriksson, The pagan Great Midwinter Sacrifice and the royal mounds at Old Uppsala (some background on runic calendar staffs)
Unicode Consortium, Unicode Home Page.
Wikipedia, Computus (information about the Metonic cycle and lunar calendars)
CROSSREFS
Sequence in context: A004973 A114361 A235086 * A248132 A238553 A282335
KEYWORD
fini,full,nonn,word
AUTHOR
Antti Karttunen, Sep 10 2004
STATUS
approved