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Abecedarium Nordmannicum.<br />
APPENDIX<br />
From Codex Sangallensis 878, fol. 321, a 9th century<br />
MS. <strong>of</strong> Hrabanus Maurus containing the earliest example<br />
<strong>of</strong> the sixteen letter alphabet <strong>of</strong> the Viking Age. Of.<br />
Mullenh<strong>of</strong>f and Scherer, Denkmdler deutscher Poesie und<br />
Prosa p. 19 (Berlin, 1892); for facsimile, Wimmer, Die<br />
<strong>Rune</strong>nschrift, p.<br />
236 :<br />
Feu forman,<br />
tTr after,<br />
Thuris thritten stabu,<br />
Os ist himo oboro,<br />
Rat endost ritan<br />
Chaow thanne cliwot.<br />
Hagal,<br />
Nau hab&<br />
Is, Ar endi Sol,<br />
Tin, Brica endi Man midi<br />
Lago the leohto,<br />
Yr al bihabet<br />
In the MS. the Scandinavian llnnic characters are found. In addition :<br />
1. Under Feu forman WEEA in English Bunic letters and T with one<br />
stroke as in v. 9. 7. Above Hagal an English H with two crossbars.<br />
8. Above Ar an English A. 9. Above Man an English M. 11. Above Yr a<br />
variety <strong>of</strong> English Y.
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