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Thorn (letter)
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Thorn (letter)
Thorn
or
þorn
(
Þ
,
þ
) is a letter in the
Old English
,
Gothic
,
Old Norse
and modern
Icelandic alphabet
s, as well as some dialects of
Middle English
. It was also used in
medieval
Scandinavia
, but was later replaced with the
digraph
th
,
except in Iceland, where it survives. The letter originated from the
rune
in the
Elder Fuþark
and was called
thorn
in the Anglo-Saxon and
thorn
or
thurs
(a category of beings in
Germanic paganism
) in the Scandinavian
rune poems
. Its reconstructed
Proto-Germanic
name is
Thurisaz
.
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