Tag: orthography
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More than You Ever Wanted to Know about a Dwarf Named Litr
After running a poll on social media and realizing that less people knew about Litr the dwarf, I decided to dig a bit too deeply (mostly to showcase medieval manuscripts and Old Norse).
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More on Old Norse Orthography: Ö vs Ǫ
neonsuntan replied to your post: “How far should we go to preserve old Norse Orthography? Most…” Should we use ö, o, or ǫ for the first vowel in Voluspa? Also many of the original texts used an “av” ligature that simply isn’t supported in many fonts. (It’s Latin extended-d A739). Concerning ‘ǫ’ and ‘ö’: The ‘ǫ’ spelling is what…
