Dylon Lawrence
Hail to the reader! Thank you for showing an interest in the 'Learn Vinland Younger Futhark' book. So you may be wondering why I created Vinland Younger Futhark. Well, I initially started this book with the intention of only using Younger Futhark. Younger Futhark is an alphabet of Scandinavian Runes containing 16 characters, which were used around the Viking timeline. I quickly realized that this Old Norse Language was not intended to compliment such languages like modern English.No matter how hard I tried, I just could not create a good system of translating Younger Futhark into English confidently. Yet translating English into Younger Futhark was no problem. This is because one Younger Futhark character can represent several English letters.Any examples of Younger Futhark why it is not used that often in modern times. It simply just does not translate well into English. Its more of a guessing game of what seems right, rather than a confirmed translation. My goal is to revive this old language for modern English speaking people who are interested in the Norse culture. This includes bringing back Rune Stones and Grave Stones into the modern era. But we have a problem, most of the Grave Stones would be untranslatable into English. Especially important translations like names would be very difficult and time consuming. So it seems inevitable that we need to update the Younger Futhark to compliment modern English. This is why I created the Vinland Younger Futhark. I came into this project with the sole intention of not changing it, but rather slightly modifying already existing characters. This means that I did not have to create any 'new' symbols for this to work. Instead I used the characters already provided and just made slight variations to represent each letter in the English alphabet.Problem solved! I found several variations of the Younger Futhark during my research. Just as people migrate and spread out, so is it natural for languages to change and update. This is true then, just as it is true now! Enjoy this ancient alphabet and lets carve a new path!
