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Introduction: script and sensibility
The writing's on the wall: inscription and inheritance in Old English poetry
Releasing runes: riddles and revelation in the Exeter Book
Palm-twigs and runic glyphs: the ornamental textuality of runes
Re-scripting the past in Old Norse heroic poetry
Sacred script: myths of writing in the Poetic Edda
Conclusion: the shape of things to come.
The writing's on the wall: inscription and inheritance in Old English poetry
Releasing runes: riddles and revelation in the Exeter Book
Palm-twigs and runic glyphs: the ornamental textuality of runes
Re-scripting the past in Old Norse heroic poetry
Sacred script: myths of writing in the Poetic Edda
Conclusion: the shape of things to come.