The research project â€œRunic writing in the Germanic languages (RuneS)â€� deals with the earliest independently developed writing system in the Germanic languages, the runic script.



It is the aim of the project to describe and analyse runic writing in a comprehensive way, transcending the boundaries of the three groups of runic writing systems. There will be two principal sctions: Runic Graphemics and Runic Text Grammar and Pragmatics. The research data and results of the two sections will be published in the database RuneS-DB at the end of the respective research modules.



The comprehensive basic data on the nature, content and context of the European runic finds are published here as a first version of RuneS-DB.