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1. #GAME OF THRONES FONT ALPHABET PROFESSIONAL#
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They don't inherently need to form a complete sentence and in-universe might just be a series of abbreviations, etc. The sigil of House Royce contains four strings of runes, one around each side. The Old Tongue language, however, had not yet been invented when this heraldry was designed in Season 1 (and really, only first received even a brief sampling in Season 5), so the actual words spelled out by the runes are in English/Common Tongue.

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The rune symbols in the TV series appear to have not been invented from scratch, but are simply a re-use of the real-life Anglo-Saxon Furthorc rune system. The runes from the Royce sigil, as seen in the Lineages book, rotated so they are all parallel. These first appeared on tournament banners in Season 1, and later more prominently appeared in Season 4 when Lord Yohn Royce, head of House Royce, wore a cloak with his House sigil prominently displayed upon it. The novels do state that the heraldry of House Royce contains Old Tongue runes, but gives no description of what they look like.įor the TV series, Old Tongue runes are depicted in the on-screen heraldry of House Royce. It is also a tradition for the current head of House Royce to wear bronze armor inscribed with Old Tongue runes. The most prominent use of Old Tongue runes in the narrative is actually in the heraldry of House Royce, who are very proud of their descent from the First Men (being one of the only major First Men Houses that the Andals did not push out of the Vale when their invasion began there). Maesters still know the Old Tongue rune system, and those concerned with history use it in their research about the Age of Heroes, to glean what little they can from gravemarkers left by the ancient First Men. In the novels, when Jon Snow hands the wildling clan leader Tormund a letter he tells Jon that he can’t read – though this is inconclusive, given that the letter was written in the Common Tongue writing system, which Tormund wouldn’t know even if he did know the Old Tongue rune system.

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In the present day, some of the Free Folk (wildlings) who live Beyond the Wall might still know the Old Tongue rune system, for basic tasks such as gravemarkers, but their tribal society is largely illiterate. The Order of Maesters did originate at Oldtown before the Andal Invasion, but apparently it was still largely an oral tradition – it is clearly stated that books were never written in Old Tongue runes. The North was the only region of the Seven Kingdoms that was not conquered by the Andals, but over the centuries through a process of cultural diffusion the Northmen adopted the language of their Andal neighbors, and along with it their writing system (this mirrors how medieval Scotland managed to rapidly build itself up into a strong kingdom capable of resisting invasion from England to the south by adopting many English cultural customs and administrative practices). It was supplanted by the Common Tongue of the Andals during the Andal Invasion six thousand years ago, and in the present day is very rarely used. The novels describe it as having a basic rune-based writing system, but it was only used for basic tasks such as marking gravestones, not composing prose narrative books. The Old Tongue is the original language of the First Men, the first group of humans to migrate to Westeros. 2.3 Overview: the development of different medieval writing scripts.2.2 Overview: handwriting in the TV series.A third system, the Old Tongue runes, was supplanted millennia ago by the Common Tongue, along with the spoken language, and few use it in the present day. There are two major writing systems in the parts of the world visited by the narrative: the one used by the Common Tongue of the Andals in Westeros, and the Valyrian glyph system (or systems). The Game of Thrones TV series, however, as an adaptation into a visual medium, can actually portray different writing systems on-screen.

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Tolkien did for his fictional languages – because as Martin has repeatedly pointed out, Tolkien was a professional linguist, but he is not. Martin did not invent his own writing systems the way J.R.R. Several different writing systems are described in the A Song of Ice and Fire novels, but because they are not a visual medium, they haven’t been described in any detail. Gilly: " You know all that from staring at marks on paper?" Samwell Tarly: " Yes." Gilly: " You're like, a wizard." - Gilly is impressed by Samwell Tarly's mastery of the written word.