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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

School digital session
African animals

Monday 21 October,
10.30–14.00
Samsung Centre
Free, booking essential

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

Sponsored by Samsung

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For Nursery, Reception and KS1 students.

Young students identify African animals from models, whiteboard images and video, then visit the African galleries with digital cameras.

They use laptops to make animal masks, which they wear for games.

Includes gallery visit and lunch break.

Cancellation and no-show charges apply.See full terms and conditions

Maximum group size: 15

Age: Nursery, Reception & Key Stage 1

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