About this text
George Stephens' 1884 handbook on the 24-rune older futhark: the alphabet, the monuments and the inscriptions themselves. It gives what the stones say, not what Fehu means — the runic evidence rather than the modern meanings, and therefore the primary record any claim about the runes stands on.
The clause that rides with it
The 24-rune Elder Futhark row is attested in the epigraphy (the Vimose comb, about 150 AD; the Kylver stone, about 400 AD). The one-stave-one-meaning divinatory layer attached to it is modern — a twentieth-century reconstruction, not a Viking-age practice. We publish the evidence and say so.
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