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To celebrate Vikings Live, we have replaced our Roman alphabet with the runic alphabet used by the Vikings, the Scandinavian ‘Younger Futhark’. The ‘Younger Futhark’ has only 16 letters, so we have used some of the runic letters more than once or combined two runes for one Roman letter.

For an excellent introduction to runes, we recommend Martin Findell’s book published by British Museum Press.

More information about how we have ‘runified’ this site

The British Museum

Digital workshop
Shadow puppet workshop

Sunday 16 February,
11.00–13.00 & 14.00–16.00
Samsung Centre
Free, booking advised

Phone +44 (0)20 7323 8181
Ticket Desk in Great Court

Sponsored by Samsung

Recommend this event

Learn about the ancient tradition of shadow-puppetry in Java and then decorate your own beautiful puppets.

Use voice recording software and video cameras to then bring your characters to life through film.

Sessions last 120 mins.

Age: 7+

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