Book Title: Alphabet Key To History Of Mankind
Author(s): David Diringer
Publisher: Hutchinsons Scientific and Technical Publications
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APPENDIX TO CHAPTER 1X according to some scholars (for instance, O. von Friesen) seem to have been invented in the region of Lake Mælar, but are found mainly on stones discovered in the region of Hälsingland, and attributed to the eleventh century.
The Manx Runes
The Manx runic system (Fig. 233, 6 and 235) is a variety of the SwedishNorwegian short system. The script of the nearly thirty inscriptions
Fig. 235--Runic-oghamic inscription (Manx Museum)
found in the Isle of Man agrees mainly with the (Estergothian form, and is considered by many scholars as a descendant of the Swedish short system. According to E. V. Gordon, this seems unlikely. "The CeltoScandinavian inhabitants of Man were of Norwegian descent, and there cannot have been many Swedes in the west, The Man inscriptions more probably preserve an early Norwegian tradition" (Gordon). It is, however,
