The ogam lochlannach, Book of Ballymote, fol. The Younger Futhark became known in Europe as the "alphabet of the Norsemen", and was studied in the interest of trade and diplomatic contacts, referred to as Abecedarium Nordmannicum in Frankish Fulda (possibly by Walahfrid Strabo) and ogam lochlannach " Ogham of the Scandinavians" in the Book of Ballymote. The third ætt was reduced by four runes, losing the e, ŋ, o and d runes.The old z rune was kept (transliterated in the context of Old Norse as ʀ) but moved to the end of the rune row in the only change of letter ordering in Younger Futhark. The j rune was rendered superfluous due to Old Norse sound changes, but was kept with the new sound value of a.
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