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12
Jun
In the first decade of the 7th century, King Aethelburht of Kent laid down on parchment the first set of Legal Codes that survive from the Anglo-Saxon period. The codes still exist although in a copied volume of law codes and genealogical records called the “Textus Roffensius” – the Rochester Book – which was made […]
Tags: law codes, runes' anglo-saxon
23
Sep
When the ancestors of the English came to Britain they spoke Old German which soon evolved into Old English . Little of their writings survives but what does was written in a Runic alphabet called the Futhorc after the first letters of their alphabet. The Old English Futhorc originated from the Elder Futhark – the original […]
Tags: runes' anglo-saxon