Runic and Heroic Poems of the Old Teutonic Peoples/The Runic Poems/Appendix
APPENDIX
Abecedarium Nordmannicum.
From Codex Sangallensis 878, fol. 321, a 9th century MS. of Hrabanus Maurus containing the earliest example of the sixteen letter alphabet of the Viking Age. Cf. Mullenhoff and Scherer, Denkmäler deutscher Poesie und Prosa(s) p. 19 (Berlin, 1892); for facsimile, Wimmer, Die Runenschrift, p. 236:—
Feu forman
Ûr after
Thuris thritten stabu,
Os ist himo oboro,
Rat endost ritan
Chaon thanne cliuôt.
Hagal, Naut hab&
Is, Ar endi Sol,
Tiu, Brica endi Man midi
Lagu the leohto,
Yr al bihabet.
In the MS. the Scandinavian Runic characters are found. In addition: 1. Under Feu forman WRE͏͡A in English Runic letters and T with one stroke as in v. 9. 7. Above Hagal an English H with two crossbars. 8. Above Ar an English A. 9. Above Man an English M. 11. Above Yr a variety of English Y.