Runica Manuscripta and Runic Dating: The Expansion of the Younger Fuþark

The article is a presentation and a discussion of the importance of t he runic alphabets contained in Oxford St John' MS 17, fol. 5v as evi dence for chronology of so-called 'dotted runes' in the medieval fuþa rk. The manuscript, which can be dated prior to the year 1113. It con tains one Scandinavian fuþark with seven dotted runes so as to make u p one allmost complete medieval fuþar a fact which enables us to date the process of making an expaned runic alphabeth in the 11th century .