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.
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Why is it important?
The article sheds light on several hitherto neglected or feebly investigated aspects of the Icelandic 'Third Grammatical Treatise'.
Perspectives
The investigation is expected to awaken the attention and curiosity of scholars and induce them to reconsider and study in greater depth one the most complex, yet at the same time most fascinating, texts of Old Icelandic grammatical literature.
Prof. Fabrizio D. Raschella'
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This page is a summary of: Óláfr Þórðarson and the ‘Norse alphabet’, NOWELE North-Western European Language Evolution, September 2016, John Benjamins,
DOI: 10.1075/nowele.69.2.03ras.
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