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