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Grimly smiling, returning their salutes and without pause, limping to his waiting carriage came his answer: "Sieben Buchstaben, meine Herren!" In Germany military parlance this means the Emperor's signature, Wilhelm II, to the mobilization orders. In order to give the reader a fairly correct view of this mighty organization, I have to explain each group separately.
"In times," says Kemble,* "when there was neither pen, ink, nor parchment the bark of trees and smooth surfaces of wood or soft stone were the usual depositaries of these symbols or runes hence the name run-stafas, mysterious staves answering to the Buchstaben of the Germans. * Archaeologia, vol. xxviii. On Anglo-Saxon Runes.
Frankfort has another distinction it is the birthplace of the German alphabet; or at least of the German word for alphabet BUCHSTABEN. They say that the first movable types were made on birch sticks BUCHSTABE hence the name. I was taught a lesson in political economy in Frankfort. I had brought from home a box containing a thousand very cheap cigars.
Frankfort has another distinction it is the birthplace of the German alphabet; or at least of the German word for alphabet BUCHSTABEN. They say that the first movable types were made on birch sticks BUCHSTABE hence the name. I was taught a lesson in political economy in Frankfort. I had brought from home a box containing a thousand very cheap cigars.
We may observe in passing, that the word Buchstaben, beech-staves, is a direct descendant of these wooden runes. As early as 1695 antiquaries were busy with the Ruthwell Cross, but at the beginning of the nineteenth century profound ignorance still reigned in regard even to the language which the runes were intended to convey.
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