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Before print, runes were used in southern Scandinavia and in Britain as monumental inscriptions and for writing on objects of wood or metal. Although runes were used only sporadically during the late Middle Ages, the dominance of the roman alphabet on the printing presses (whether in the form of black letter, antiqua, serif and others) dealt the final death-blow to the runic alphabet as a mode of communication during the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. However, prior to printing, r
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