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Transform latin letters to Staveless Futhark runes & vice versa

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Staveless Futhark

Transform latin letters to Staveless Futhark runes & vice versa

Deprecation notice:

This library has been discontinued in favor of Riimut. It contains same functionality for all main runic dialects. This library will also remain available in NPM and should keep working just fine.

Other runic alphabets:

Install

yarn add staveless-futhark

Usage

You can either transform runes to text, or text to runes.

Latin text to runes:

import { lettersToRunes } from 'staveless-futhark'

// From Hög runestone 12.
const result = lettersToRunes('lit rita stin þina')

console.log(result) // ⸌ᛁ⸍:⡄ᛁ⸍⸝:╵⸍ᛁ⸜:וᛁ⸜⸝

Runes to latin text:

import { runesToLetters } from 'staveless-futhark'

const result = runesToLetters('⸌ᛁ⸍:⡄ᛁ⸍⸝:╵⸍ᛁ⸜:וᛁ⸜⸝')

console.log(result) // lit Rita stin þina

About Staveless Futhark

Staveless runes were simplification of Younger Futhark, a runic alphabet of the viking age. In order to create the staveless runes, vertical marks (or staves) were dropped from individual runes.