What alternatives are there to allrunes for displaying futhark?

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The February 2020 release of LaTeX introduced a swdefault command for working with "swash" text which, unfortunately, breaks the allrunes package, which has a swdefault command of its own.  Now any attempt to typeset a LaTeX document that uses allrunes fails with "! LaTeX Error: Command swdefault already defined."
Until allrunes is updated to no longer have this command, how can one typeset text in runes/futhark?  If the answer involves extracting individual glyphs from the package, the ones I'm interested in are textarc{d} (ᛞ, U+16DE) and textarc{w} (ᚹ, U+16B9).

Ulrike Fischer · Accepted Answer

allrunes will need a real overhaul to make it compatible with the improved series handling in LaTeX. But if you need only the two symbols you mentioned you can try something like this:

documentclass{article}
newcommand{DeclareFontShapeWithSizes}[5]{%
  DeclareFontShape{#1}{#2}{#3}{#4}{%
   <5><6><7><8><9><10><10.95><12><14.4><17.28><20.74><24.88><29.86><35.83> #5}{}}

newcommand{DeclareRuneSeparators}[1]{} %if needed copy the whole definition

input{arc.fd}

begin{document}
abc textarc{d} textarc{w}
end{document}

What alternatives are there to allrunes for displaying futhark?

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