Staveless runes

This label is, however, misleading since staveless runes also appear in Medelpad, Södermanland, and the Norwegian town of Bergen.

[1] The staveless runes may appear hard to recognize at first glance, but the only difference between them and the preceding Younger Futhark is – in fact – their omission of main staves.

[5] The verdict of the hieroglyph expert was too much for the mathematician, antiquarian and Hälsingland native Magnus Celsius.

He started the process of publishing his discovery shortly after making the speech but died suddenly before the printing was finished.

[5] However, the news of the discovery spread quickly among scholars and it was used as the basis of the claim that stenography had originated in Sweden.