Anglo-Saxon runes

Anglo-Saxon runes (Old English: rūna ᚱᚢᚾᚪ) are runes used by the Anglo-Saxons as an alphabet in their native writing system. Today, the characters are known collectively as the futhorc (ᚠᚢᚦᚩᚱᚳ fuþorc) from the sound values of the first six runes. The futhorc was a development from the 24-character Elder Futhark. Since futhorc also recorded Old Frisian along with Old English, the term Anglo-Frisian runes is also used. They were likely to have been used from the 5th century onward.

They were later accompanied and eventually overtaken by the Old English Latin alphabet introduced to Anglo-Saxon England by missionaries. Futhorc runes were no longer in common use by the eleventh century, but MS Oxford St John's College 17 indicates that fairly accurate understanding of them persisted into at least the twelfth century.