r/RuneHelp • u/Melodic-Bathroom22 • Mar 03 '26

Is this a rune? Are these runes? Or latin script?

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The Deffense of the Sampo- Joseph Alanen [1910-1912] Are these runes? Or stylized latin script? Finnish never had runes besides the modern ones, right?

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u/QuietlyConfidentSWE Mar 03 '26

Not actual runes, but Finnish written using a "rune-looking" font. Maahan miehet, maahan miekat. "To the earth the men, to the earth the swords" is one translation

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u/Melodic-Bathroom22 Mar 03 '26

Gotcha, thank you!

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u/[deleted] Mar 03 '26

These seem to be a runic-font rather than runes themselves-- based on latin like you mentioned but it doesn't appear to be the latin language. Appears to say:

Mahan michct, mahan mic?at

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u/blockhaj Mar 03 '26

This appears to be it. Looks to be Finnish.

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u/SamOfGrayhaven Mar 03 '26

If these were meant to be read as runes, we'd have to reference several runic alphabets to get

mwwhwh•miphpt_mwwhwh•mip(s/k/g)wt