Welcome to the History of English Podcast, a podcast about the history of the English

language.

This is episode 25, Germanic markings and the runes.

In this episode, we're going to continue to look at the early Germanic tribes.

But this time around, we're going to focus on events in southern Germany.

We're going to look at the southward migration of Germanic tribes to the Danube region,

where they met the Romans and eventually met the alphabet.

So for the first time, we can begin to examine the language of the early Germans in their

own written words.

But before I begin, let me remind you that the history of the alphabet series is still

available.

You can get it through iTunes, Amazon.com, and the website for the podcast, history of

Englishpodcast.com.

And also, I wanted to confirm that you can use a credit card to purchase the alphabet

series through the website.

At checkout, there is a checkout with PayPal button.

But if you click that, you have the option of paying with a credit card if you prefer.

And speaking of the alphabet, let's talk about Germanic writing.

Because in this episode, we're going to move the story of the Germanic tribes forward

a century or so, to the time when the early Germanic languages met the alphabet.

But before I jump into this topic, I wanted to mention that I'm going to talk about the

Goths in the next episode.

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