Wynn

Wynn

Wynn (latinx|Ƿ ƿ) (also spelled wen, ƿynn, or ƿen) was a letter of the Old English alphabet. It was used to represent the sound IPA|/w/.

While the earliest Old English texts represent this phoneme with the digraph , scribes soon borrowed the rune "wynn" > developed.

The denotation of the rune is ", " known from the Anglo-Saxon rune poem:

:runic|ᚹ " _an. Ƿenne bruceþ, ðe can ƿeana lyt sares and sorge and him sylfa hæf blæd and blysse and eac byrga geniht."

: Bliss he enjoys who knows not pain,: sorrow nor anxiety, and himself has: prosperity and bliss and a good enough house.

It is not continued in the Younger Futhark, but in the Gothic alphabet, the letter script|Goth|


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