Poland - Vikings' alphabet

In September pupils from classes IV a and IV b during the history lessons getting to know the Vikings old letters - runes.
Runes are the characters of the alphabet used by the Vikings and other Germanic peoples from about the second to the 15th centuries A.D. Some runes vaguely resemble letters in our own alphabet; others look more like symbols. All had meaning to the Vikings, who carved them into their so-called rune stones—large monuments that honor the memory, and the names, of Norsemen past.     Children learnt the meaning of each of the 24 runic characters and wrote their names in runes :).