runic script, the earliest written form of Germanic languages, seems to be derived from Etruscan script, an undeciphered but greek derived script of a pre-roman native language from central Italy.
the mystery is the earliest attested Runic script was from the end of first century A.D., But the height of a Truscon cultural influence was 4 centuries before that, and by the beginning of first century A.D., only a few antiquarians and the scholars in rome could still read the Etruscan script. how did the Germanic people come to adapt the form of Etruscan script for their own alphabet?
the mystery is the earliest attested Runic script was from the end of first century A.D., But the height of a Truscon cultural influence was 4 centuries before that, and by the beginning of first century A.D., only a few antiquarians and the scholars in rome could still read the Etruscan script. how did the Germanic people come to adapt the form of Etruscan script for their own alphabet?