Last week I had to turn in a paper for my Writing Systems of the World linguistics class, and my topic was ancient runes. In the Oxford dictionary, a rune is defined as 1) a letter of an ancient Germanic alphabet; 2) a symbol with mysterious or magical significance. So from 200 BC to about the 8th century, runes were a writing system that had a strong magical connotation. Well, today I was reading Harry Potter & the Half-Blood Prince for the 468256 time, and one of the subjects at Hogwarts is Ancient Runes! I thought this was kinda cool because there is a strong sense of magic associated with ancient runes, and it is also a subject offered at the magical school.
Random, I know, but I find things like this interesting.
Original post by Ashley