We take a look at the history of runes and their connection to early alphabets and Germanic culture. Then we take a trip back to the Phoenician and Egyptian origins of the modern English alphabet, and talk about some of the earliest examples of Greek writing, in inscriptions, epic poetry, and myth. Also, introducing Lyceum, a new platform for educational podcasting!
Transcript of this episode
The “Screaming Viking” cocktail
Lyceum
NativLang’s video Muslim Vikings & Magic Letters: The Odd History of Runes pt 1
Images of English Runes
The story of Hyacinth (see under “Larkspur”) and images of possible “Ai Ai” flowers
“THE TEXT: Signs of Writing in Homer.” Homer: The Poetry of the Past, by ANDREW FORD, Cornell University Press, Ithaca; London, 1992, pp. 131–171. JSTOR.
The Runecast podcast
This episode on YouTube
Our Patreon page
This podcast is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License
The Endless Knot RSS
Episode 88: Meta-Etymology
Episode 87: Alexander the Great, with Meg Finlayson
Episode 86: Who's on Your Calendar?
Episode 85: Election Talk to Take Your Mind off the Election
Episode 84: Linoleum: It's Not As Boring As You Think!
Episode 83: Recipes and Authority, from Intelligent Speech
Episode 82: Plagues, with Moxie from Your Brain on Facts
Episode 81: The Rise (and Fall) of Skywalker
Episode 79: Sex & Gender
Episode 78: An Etymological Holiday Feast
Bonus Episode: Thorneloe Race Forum
Episode 77: SoundEdu19, with Scott Lepisto
Episode 76: Do You Believe in Magic?
Episode 75: Tracking Monsters, with Liz Gloyn
Episode 74: Medieval Fact & Fiction, with Winston Black
Episode 73: Things Get Weird
Episode 72: Dispatches from VidCon 2019
Episode 71: Enlisting Imagination under the Banner of Science
Episode 70: Carly Silver
Create your
podcast in
minutes
It is Free
Irish Songs with Ken Murray
History Obscura
Historycal: Words that Shaped the World
The Rest Is History
Lore