You may also find sometimes a capital N at the end of words and sometimes a capital S in the middle of one. This comes from diplomatic manuscript transcriptions. As a way of saving precious parchment space, scribes used severeal different abreviations, one of them was to repressent a double consonant by using a captal letter. That is nn=N, rr=R, etc.The inverso of what happens, for example with some spanish abreviations EEUU for Estados Unidos (United States).
So, in theory those capital letters, to be found only in editions where they copy the manuscript verbatim (like the Armnamagnaean editions) should be pronounced as a double r, s or n.
 
Cheers
 
Fernando.
 
 
----- Original Message -----
From: Xolotl Grimnir
To: norse_course@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, May 04, 2007 1:24 AM
Subject: [norse_course] Capital R at the end of a word

I've been looking at all the pronunciation guides that I can find and i can't find anything that
explains why some words have a capital R at the end of them.
 
All I know is that in runic spelling a Elhaz rune is used for the R instead of Raidho.
 
What sound does this character represent?
 
-Juan
 
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----- Original Message ----
From: llama_nom <600cell@.... co.uk>
To: norse_course@ yahoogroups. com
Sent: Thursday, May 3, 2007 4:57:18 AM
Subject: [norse_course] The Viking Way


I've just come across this:

http://www.bbc. co.uk/radio4/ history/viking_ way/index. shtml

A BBC Radio 4 series of three programmes first broadcast in 2005. You
can listen to them all free on the internet. There's even some
snippets of Old Norse poetry in episode 3.

LN



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