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{{Anglo-Saxon society}}
The '''Anglo-Saxon runes''' ({{lang-ang|rūna}} ᚱᚢᚾᚪ) are [[runes]] used by the early [[Anglo-Saxons]] as an [[alphabet]] in their [[writing system]]. Today, the characters are known collectively as the '''futhorc''' (ᚠᚢᚦᚩᚱᚳ ''fuþorc'') from the sound values of the first six runes. The futhorc was a development from the 24-character [[Elder Futhark]]. Since futhorc also recorded [[Old Frisian]] along with [[Old English]], the term '''[[Anglo-Frisian]] runes''' is also used. They were likely to have been used from the 5th century onward.
They were later accompanied and eventually overtaken by the [[Old English Latin alphabet]] introduced to [[Anglo-Saxon England]] by missionaries. Futhorc runes were no longer in common use by the eleventh century, but MS Oxford St John's College 17 indicates that fairly accurate understanding of them persisted into at least the twelfth century.
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