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Abecedarium nordmannicum

Abecedarium nordmannicum, a runic alphabet of sixteen signs with a simple explanatory text in alliterative verse. This is written in Old Saxon with traces of Anglo-Saxon. The alphabet is entered in a 9th-c. MS. at St Gall containing grammatical sections from the Etymologiae of Isidor.

 
 
 

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