Medieval runes
（重定向自Futhork）
![A church bell from Saleby, Västergötland, Sweden, containing a runic inscription from 1228.](/Images/godic/202501/14/Saleby_kyrkklocka,_Västergötland5228.png")
![Leaf (f. 27r.) of Codex Runicus, a vellum manuscript from c. 1300 containing one of the oldest and best preserved texts of the Scanian Law, written entirely in runes.](/Images/godic/202501/14/CodexRunicus5228.jpeg")
![A 16th-century depiction of children taught to use runic calendars (Olaus Magnus).](/Images/godic/202501/14/Runstav5228.png")
The medieval runes, or the futhork, was a Scandinavian 27 letter runic alphabet that evolved from the Younger Futhark after the introduction of dotted runes at the end of the Viking Age and it was fully formed in the early 13th century. Due to the expansion, each rune corresponded to only one phoneme, whereas the runes in the preceding Younger Futhark could correspond to several.