Rowns

The Rownish stavesets (runes in English) are the old stave tokens that were brooked by the Thedish folk for writing and other brookings. The Shedenish sunderings are known as Fuþark and the Old English sundering as Fuþorc, both spellings being the first six staves of each staveset.

The earliest known rownish writings were made at about year the 150 until about 700 in middle Broadland and until about 1100 in Shedeny when the staveset was mostly oversteaded by the Latin staveset with the spread of Christendom. The brooking of rowns went on in Shedeny, longest in outborough Sweden until the early twentieth hundredyear, mostly for bedecking in The Dales and for rownish timetales.

The three best-known rownish stavesets are the Elder Fuþark (year 150 to 800), the Old English Fuþorc (year 400 to 1100) and the Younger Fuþark (year 800 to 1100). The Younger Fuþark is further sundered into the long-branch rowns, short-twig, or Rök rowns, and the Hälsinge, or staveless rowns. Younger Fuþark grew further into the so-called Markmanish rowns, the Middletidish rowns (year 1100 to 1500) and the Dalish rowns (about 1500 to 1800).

The headspring of the rownish staveset is unsettled. Many staves of the Elder Fuþark look akin to staves from the Latin staveset. Other likelihoods are the 5th to 1st hundredyear BC Northern Italish stavesets of Lepontish, Rhaetish and Venetish, all of which are nigh akin to each other and brook stavesets borne after the Old Italish staveset.