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Rob Holman started the topic Germania: An Argument for Continuity in Sortilege in the forum
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In Chapter 10 of Germania, Tacitus describes a Germanic ritual involving the cutting of twigs from a fruit-bearing tree, marking them with symbols, and casting them onto a white cloth for divinatory purposes. While Tacitus does not specify what these marks were, applying Occam’s Razor and historical context makes it highly probable that the m…Read More
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I am going to answer this on the forum post itself, so it stays around…
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And as I understand correctly, the runes were first used for rune casting, en over time as a way of writing?
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Rob Holman started the topic Possibly the oldest known Runestone in the forum
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Today, an open access paper about this inscription was published.
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I have a question, do we know If there was one mark per twig. Or a series of Marks per twig?