![]() ![]() Most often, however, the use of runes in Old English manuscripts is ornamental or self-consciously literary. Thus the rune ᛟ ( eþel) sometimes appears instead of the word eþel ‘estate’, ‘homestead’ in Old English texts. In addition to these letters, Anglo-Saxon scribes also very occasionally use runes, as letters in their own right and occasionally to stand for a complete word. The unmodified version is available here. The background to this image has been simplified slightly for pedagogical purposes. Please to not reproduce without permission). Manuscript reproduced with the permission of the Dean and Chapter of Winchester/Winchester Cathedral Library. Some of the differences can be seen if you compare the image below, a detail from the late tenth/early eleventh century manuscript Winchester Cathedral I folio 81r showing the text of Cædmon’s Hymn, with its transcription in a modern computer font:
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