Message #2557

[Valkyrie]

Runes could be written left to right or right to left. The "facing" of the runes makes it clear which way to read. For inscriptions longer than one line, alternating lines were frequently written in opposite directions, first leftwards, then rightwards. Sometimes, the lines bent around at the end, so that one line reads left to right and the next line right to left and upside down. Some rune stones (such as the Rök stone shown to the right) have text crammed onto every surface of the stone, with lines reading upwards, downwards, leftwards, and rightwards.