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The Age of Arthur · Dec 5, 2025

Did a Saxon invent the runes?

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What Scandinavian experts don’t want you to know

The Old English runic alphabet inlaid on an Anglo-Saxon battle-knife found in the River Thames near Battersea (British Museum)

There is nothing more Scandinavian than runes – ask any Scandinavian. The Vikings used runes and there is nothing more Scandinavian than Vikings (except, of course, for runes). But the Anglo-Saxons also used runes, as did the Got…

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