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There are varieties of the Younger futhork script, especially the Edward-script which should presumably be grouped into Dalecarlian rune-script; see . In total, about 380 objects of various notes from 1500 -- 1910 have been refound from areas of Dalecarlia, Gestricia and Herdalia. The Edward-scripts were used until 1910s in Älvdalen, Dalecarlia and are also used on the Kensington runestoneThe Kensington runestone is a roughly rectangular slab of greywacke, 30 by 16 by 6 in and weighing about 200 lb (90 kg) covered in runes found in Kensington, Minnesota in 1898. Supposedly, it proves that Viking explorers were able to penetrate nearly half, thus indicating its status as hoax for most researchers. (An alternative viewpoint is that the Dalecarlian Runic scripts are elder than 15th century.)
Runic carvings are well known from thousands of runestones, mostly in Scandinavia.
See also: Runic alphabetRunic alphabets are a set of related alphabets using letters known as runes that were formerly used to write Germanic languages, mainly in Scandinavia, and the British Isles. In all its varieties, they may be considered to be an ancient writing system in, OghamOgham ( Old Irish Ogam was an alphabet used primarily to represent Gaelic languages that was probably often written in wood in early times. The main flowering of the use of "classical" Ogham in stone seems to be 5th 6th century AD. Monumental Ogham inscri, Orkhon scriptTurkic people living in Central Asia developed various alphabets in early ages. The earliest known alphabet is the Kokturk Kok Turki Gokturk alphabet developed by Kokturks, a Turkic tribespeople that had established a broad Central Asian empire and reache, Pentimal systemPentimal system (( Swedish pentadiska siffor is a number format similar to decimal system used in Scandinavia under medival time especially in (English) clogs (Swedish) runstavar and (Norwegian) kalenderstavar''. This is a calendar system, presumably deri