From: Andrew West (andrewcwest@gmail.com)
Date: Fri Sep 09 2005 - 07:24:40 CDT
On 09/09/05, Tom Emerson <tree@basistech.com> wrote:
>
> Cleasby and Vigfusson's 1874 work "An Icelandic-English Dictionary"
> contains some characters that I haven't been able to find through
> Unicode 4.1.
>
http://penguin.pearson.swarthmore.edu/~scrist1/scanned_books/tiff/oi_cleasbyvigfusson/b0093.tiff
>
> 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?)
Clearly a glyph variant of U+16DE.
> and the right-pointing triangle for "Latin d".
I'd say this is a glyph variant of "D" used to emphasise the origin of
the rune thorn.
>
> -tree
>
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