Runa ABC

The result was that the first Swedish alphabet book ever printed had the purpose of teaching runes.

Bureus had also added the names of the runes, the phonemes they represented as well as some spelling rules.

The booklet contained small Christian texts, which were written in runes on one side and in Latin letters on the opposite one.

The last edition was printed in 1624, and it was more pedagogical than the first one, since the Latin letters were placed directly under the runes.

However, during the Thirty Years' War, some Swedish officers encrypted their messages by writing with runes.