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A discussion of the runic and the Latin alphabet in a 13th-century Icelandic grammatical treatise.

What is it about?

This study deals with those sections of the so-called Third Grammatical Treatise, written by the Icelandic scholar and poet Óláfr Þórðarson around the middle of the 13th century, in which the author describes a variety of the Scandinavian runic alphabet and compares it with the Latin alphabet. The paper aims to define the type of runic alphabet used by Óláfr in the context of medieval Scandinavian runic writing. A proposal for interpretation of an obscure runic 'pangram' (a sentence containing all runic letters), included by Óláfr in his discussion of runes, is also provided.

Why is it important?

The article sheds light on several hitherto neglected or feebly investigated aspects of the Icelandic 'Third Grammatical Treatise'.

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