Short answers, pulled from the story.
Dalecarlian runes, also called dalrunes or Dalrunor, were a late form of runic script used in the Swedish province of Dalarna. They descended from medieval runes but progressively incorporated Latin letters over the centuries, and remained in use until the twentieth century.
The last known user of Dalecarlian runes died in 1980. Scholars debate whether their use in Dalarna was an unbroken tradition or whether later users learned the script from books written on the subject.
The oldest dated Dalecarlian runic inscription is from 1596. It is carved on a bowl from the village of Åsen and reads: “Anders has made this bowl anno 1596.”
During a visit to Älvdalen in 1734, Carl Linnaeus noted in his diary that local peasants still wrote their names and ownership marks in runic letters on walls, cornerstones, and bowls. He observed this was not continued anywhere else in Sweden.
Scholars have registered more than 200 Dalecarlian runic inscriptions, most carved into wood. They appear on furniture, bridal boxes, shieling buildings, kitchen blocks, measuring sticks, and bowls.
Dalecarlian runes are not explicitly encoded in Unicode. Many can be approximated using characters from other runic rows or the Basic Latin Unicode block, and a Dalrunic alphabet font using Basic Latin as its base is available on GitHub.