How to read runes
There are several ways, and they are of different ages. The table names the oldest description of each. Where the age is younger than it looks, that is said on the page of the method itself.
| Method | Oldest description |
|---|---|
| How to cast runes on a cloth | oldest description Tacitus, Germania, chapter 10 · about AD 98 |
| The rune of the day: one rune, one question | oldest description Tacitus, Germania, chapter 10 · about AD 98 |
| Three runes: past, present, future | oldest description Tacitus, Germania, chapter 10 · about AD 98 |
| Reversed runes: which can turn, which cannot | no source no text before the twentieth century reads a rune reversed |