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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:—