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The Abecedarium Nordmannicum

(There are various readings of this difficult manuscript. The following is the
reading given by Dickins, Runic and heroic poems of the old Teutonic peoples,
published 1915 and thus free of copyright. Cursive letters are emendations by
Dickins.)

    Feu forman = taxman = verottaja OR foreman=chief(tain)
    Ur after
    Thuris thritten stabu, = stabs three times
    Os is himo oboro, = he is borne away
    Rat endost ritan = only ride
    Chaon thanne cliuôt. = then clinic
    Hagal, Naut hab&  = need has
    Is, Ar endi Sol = year ends sun
    Tiu, Brica endi Man midi = Breca(Berkana,Biork,Birch) ends man's middle
    Lagu the leohto, = lehto, metsä, woods, forest
    Yr al bihabet. = all have it, meaning genitals possibly