Pseudo-runes

The term "pseudo-runes" has also been used for runes "invented" after the end of the period of runic epigraphy, used only in medieval manuscripts but not in inscriptions.

[1][2] The age of these "manuscript-only" runes overlaps with the period of runic inscriptions, e.g. cweorth and stan are both found in the 9th-century Codex Vindobonensis 795.

[7] Of a different type are the pseudo-runes invented in the modern period, such as the unhistorical Armanen runes, or Armanen Futharkh, created by Guido von List in 1902 and later authors of Germanic mysticism (e.g. Gibor, Hagal, Wendehorn).

[8] SS runes (German: SS-runen), or esoteric insignia of the Schutzstaffel, are rune-like symbols originally used by the German Nazi paramilitary organisation SS (Schutzstaffel) during World War II.

They were inspired by Guido von List's Armanen runes (see above), which had been used by Nazis prior.

Runestone U 835 [ sv ] , a late medieval attempt at making an 11th century looking runestone, featuring rune-looking pseudo-symbols of no meaning, probably due to the creator not knowing runic.
Cross-arm cipher runes ( Swedish : korsarmsrunor ) on the Rök runestone .
Reverse of Ædwen's brooch , an 11th-century Anglo-Saxon silver disc brooch with seven pseudo-runes on a silver strip in the centre