Deck O' Names Cheat Sheet Page 2
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nglo Saxon Runes and Place Names
Ideas:
The Anglo Saxon runic alphabet is also
Runes could be used in
known as “Futhorc” (from the sounds of the
The main writing system of the time.
first 6 letters). Artifacts with this alphabet
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A code or ancient text players need to
date from the 5th to the 11th centuries. But
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“crack” - and find the table on the left to
the Latin alphabet began to replace it around
solve it.
the 9th century.
A wizard’s writing system or prophetic
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f f
x x
message.
A way to set names apart from the rest of
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u u
s s, z
the text in a document. If you hand play-
ers an “old will” or “journal”, it’s easy to
T th
t t
scan for names of people or places in a
document.
o o
b b
Anything else you want.
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r r
e e
Anglo Saxon Rune Font Credits:
Dan Smith,
c c
m m
runes/
g g
l l
Place Names
w w
N ng
We searched through the Anglo Saxon char-
ters (deeds and wills) to find our place name
h h
E oe, ee
segments. Many charters were written in
Latin and place names were in Old English or
n
d d
n
were “Latinized”.
i
a a
i
Spellings for locations vary due to the nature
of handwritten documents of the time and the
j
A ae
j (ia, io)
effect time has on language. Some of the
towns can be traced to modern day equiva-
I eo
y y
lents. We’ll use London as an example. In
document S-91 it can be see as “Lundonia”.
p p
q ea
But in S-103 it is written as “Londonie”, and in
S-1096 (written entirely in Old English) as
k k *
“Lundene”.
* a rare letter, seen in the Cotton Domitian
Other examples of modern day places in the
A.ix—a fragment of Futhorc in a bilingual
charters: Abbandune and Ebbendune
tome.
(Abingdon), and Westmunster (Westminster).
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