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All Western alphabets derive from the West Semitic Phoenician alphabet, even Runic alphabets like the Elder Futhark and Anglo-Saxon Futhorc. If you reverse the Greek and Latin you can see the inversions in the Phoenician equivalents. Associating letters with nouns (like children are taught to do today — "A" is for "apple," "B" is for "boy," etc.) is a mnemonic device that was used to spread writing, mostly for economic and administrative purposes ("A" is for "alpha" just doesn't have the same ring). The names of the Runic "Futhark" and "Futhorc" are combinations of the first initials of the first five letter-nouns, as you can see in the far right column (the last letter "C/</h" is excluded).

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German artist Otto Ubbelohde's 1910 illustrations for the Grimm Brothers story "Eisenhans" ("Iron Hans" or "Iron John"). "Eisenhans" is about a boy who frees a "wild man" and is then taken under his tutelage and learns how to become a man. The wild man tests the boy by making him guard a magic golden well, but the boy fails when he leans over to look at his reflection one day and his long hair accidentally falls in, making the gold seep through and turning his hair radiantly blond. The wild man then forces the boy to go out into the world and learn hardship, but offers his future assistance if ever needed. The boy finds work at a castle, and tries to hide his golden hair by always wearing a cap, but the princess sees it from her window one day when he takes it off to cool down while working in the garden.