Re: Old Norse orthography

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At 20:25 -0400 2005-09-08, Tom Emerson wrote:

>http://penguin.pearson.swarthmore.edu/~scrist1/scanned_books/tiff/oi_cleasbyvigfusson/b0094.tiff

That is LATIN SMALL LETTER INSULAR D.

>http://penguin.pearson.swarthmore.edu/~scrist1/scanned_books/tiff/oi_cleasbyvigfusson/b0093.tiff
>bottom of the left column, there is a character referred to as an
>"inverted C", whose glyph is an inverted, mirrored C with an
>overbar. This appears to be the recently accepted U+2184 with a
>combining macron.

Yes.

>On the same page, top of the right column, there are two runes that
>are not found in the 16A0 block: the mirrored "D" variant on dagaz
>(perhaps just a glyph variant of U+16DE?)

Glyph variant.

>and the right-pointing
>triangle for "Latin d".

That's not a rune.

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Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com

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