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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