Even after reading 1/2 this article I was reading it as "ruins" instead of runes. Two very different things apparently! "Runes are the letters in a set of rela

Even after reading 1/2 this article I was reading it as "ruins" instead of runes. Two very different things apparently! "Runes are the letters in a set of related alphabets known as runic alphabets. Runes were used to write various Germanic languages before the adoption of the Latin alphabet and for specialised purposes thereafter."