Abbreviations.
There are not many of these in this manuscript page. However, Old English did adopt some of the Latin abbreviations. | |
Here is the suspension sign for m in monnum (line 2). | |
The most usual are | |
the 7-shaped sign for and. | |
Here this should be expanded ond, as that is the way Alfred’s scribe spells it in line 6. | |
An Anglo-Saxon abbreviation can be seen in the later insertion in line 8: | |
the þ with a stroke through its ascender is the abbreviation for þæt. |
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