期刊名称：Futhark : International Journal of Runic Studies
电子版ISSN：1892-0950
出版年度：2010
期号：1
页码：65-84
出版社：University of Oslo & Uppsala University
摘要：The origin of runic script is a constantly recurring theme among runologists and others interested in runes and runic inscriptions. The view of the matter that seems to have the strongest support is “the Latin theory” in some variant or other: a conviction that the invention of the older fuþark was to a large extent inspired by roman script. The main evidence for this is the fact that several of the runic characters seem to be direct copies of Latin letters. The genesis of runic script is therefore assumed to be the result of close encounters between a non-literate Northern Europe and a literate Roman Empire. My intention with this paper is not to discuss the different theories about the origin of runes; in what follows the Latin theory is taken for granted. Instead I want to put forward some ideas about how the cultural meeting between a non-literate Germanic and a literate Roman world might have taken place and how this meeting may have stimulated the Germanic peoples to create their own vernacular script
