It’s not pronounced /wuh/, like the whispering sound the letter brings to words like whale and wonder. W’s name isn’t tied to its sound at all—it’s a historical nod to its origins. So how did this ...

The futhork, or the medieval runes, was a Scandinavian runic alphabet that evolved from the Younger Futhark at the end of the Viking Age. Used roughly from 12th to 17th centuries. The Futhorc, also ...

Media Major UK university to remove term 'Anglo-Saxon' to 'decolonize' curriculum Such overhauls are allegedly aimed at 'undercutting nationalist narratives’ a source told UK's The Telegraph ...

A university has removed the term Anglo-Saxon from module titles in a bid to 'decolonise the curriculum.' The University of Nottingham is removing the expression from a number of courses ...

It comes from the 9th or 10th century CE, and is believed to have been the door handle of a church in Hälsingland. Oath rings like these were common in both Viking and Anglo-Saxon circles ...

Anglo-Saxons would have called this spider an ‘attercoppe.’ | James Rowland/500px/Getty Images First recorded in a medical textbook dating from the 11th century, attercoppe was the Old English ...

There are a significant number of Anglo-Saxon burials where the estimated anatomical sex of the skeleton does not align with the gender implied by the items they were buried with. Some bodies ...

We would need to follow in the footsteps of Anglo-Saxon policymakers to modify free trade policies that haven’t worked for us.

But the runic alphabet is not a monolith. There are three primary runic alphabets: Scandinavian Elder Futhark, Younger Futhark, and Anglo-Saxon Futhorc.