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Ratta's old band.
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a Germanic character of runic origin
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character in the Old English alphabet derived from a rune, representing th. It evolved into a form.
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the name of the Old English and Icelandic runic letter (ye = th); named, like other runes, from the word of which it was the initial. example
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Thorn, or þorn (Þ, þ), is a letter in the Anglo-Saxon and Icelandic alphabets. It was also used in medieval Scandinavia, but was later replaced with th. The letter originated from the rune in the Elder Fuþark, called thorn in the Anglo-Saxon and thurs ("giant") in the Scandinavian rune poems, its reconstructed Proto-Germanic name being *Thurisaz.
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