%I A098476
%S A098476 5792,5794,5798,5805,5809,5812,5820,5823,5825,5830,5835,5839,5842,5850,
%T A098476 5848,5862,5870,5871,5872
%N A098476 Unicode codes for the lunation runes, used in certain medieval Scandinavian 
               perpetual calendar staves as golden numbers 1-19.
%C A098476 This order of runes with these graphic forms is used in many rune staves 
               in the collections of the National Museum of Finland. Note that the 
               first sixteen of them make up the so-called younger futhark (runic 
               alphabet), but with the fourteenth and fifteenth runes (codes 5850 
               and 5848, i.e. ᛚ (L) & ᛘ (M)) having swapped their 
               places from the usual m-l order:
%C A098476 ᚠ (F), ᚢ (U), ᚦ (Th), ᚭ (O), ᚱ (R), ᚴ 
               (K), ᚼ (H), ᚿ (N),
%C A098476 ᛁ (I), ᛆ (A), ᛋ (S), ᛏ (T), ᛒ (B), ᛚ 
               (L), ᛘ (M), ᛦ (Y),
%C A098476 The last three lunation runes were ligatures, coined to make up the full 
               1-19 set: ᛮ (ARLAUG), ᛯ (TVIMADUR), &#5872 (BELGTHOR)
%D A098476 R. W. V. Elliott, Runes: An Introduction, St Martin's Press; 2nd edition, 
               1989.
%D A098476 R. W. V. Elliott, The Runic Script, in The World's Writing Systems, edited 
               by Peter T. Daniels and William Bright, Oxford Univ. Press, 1996. 
               p. 333-339.
%H A098476 G. Henriksson, <a href="http://www.astro.uu.se/archast/Henriksson.pdf">
               The pagan Great Midwinter Sacrifice and the royal mounds at Old Uppsala</
               a> (some background on runic calendar staffs)
%H A098476 Unicode Consortium, <a href="http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode4.0.0/
               ch13.pdf">Unicode Standard Version 4.0, Chapter 13, Archaic Scripts 
               (Runic)</a>
%H A098476 Unicode Consortium, <a href="http://www.unicode.org/">Unicode Home Page</
               a> (Follow the link "Display Problems?" to find an appropriate information/
               font file to show the Runes correctly).
%H A098476 Wikipedia: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computus">Computus</
               a> (information about the Metonic cycle and lunar calendars)
%H A098476 <a href="Sindx_Ca.html#calendar">Index entries for sequences related 
               to calendars</a>
%H A098476 <a href="http://titus.fkidg1.uni-frankfurt.de/unicode/tituut.asp">TITUS 
               Cyberbit Basic font</a> (Unicode font containing also Runes, among 
               other characters)
%Y A098476 Cf. A061745.
%Y A098476 Sequence in context: A004953 A004973 A114361 this_sequence A164649 A104284 
               A131494
%Y A098476 Adjacent sequences: A098473 A098474 A098475 this_sequence A098477 A098478 
               A098479
%K A098476 fini,nonn,word
%O A098476 1,1
%A A098476 Antti Karttunen (his-firstname.his-surname(AT)iki.fi), Sep 10 2004.