Among the earliest documentation of Dalecarlian runes is a 1599 copper engravingBureus, 1599. by Johannes Bureus, Sweden’s first national antiquarian.Stille, 2016.
An overview of the various Dalecarlian runes documented, starting with Bureus’, is provided by Adolf Noreen in the first issue of the Swedish journal Fornvännen.Noreen, 1906, p. 30.
The Dalecarlian runic alphabet documented by Bureus. The second sample shows his variant forms, displayed with the help of an OpenType stylistic set.
Bureus’ Dalecarlian runes differ somewhat from later forms, and also includes one character not encoded in Unicode: the runic letter gir () .
Bureus, J. (1599). Bureus runtavla [Bureus’ runic plate]: D Rv187. [Engraving].
Stille, P. (2016). Johan Bures runtavla och dess titel [Johannes Bureu’s runic plate and its title]. In J. E. Knirk and H. Williams, Futhark: International Journal of Runic Studies, pp. 150–153. Retrieved 20 September 2026 from diva-portal.org
Noreen, A. (1906). Dalska runinskrifter från nyare tid, III. Med 1 tabell [ Dalecarlian runic inscription from the recent era, III. With 1 table]. In Fornvännen, 1, pp. 80-91. Retrieved 20 September 2026 from raa.diva-portal.org