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| | Saga Conference 2000 paper (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | More specifically, scholars, mostly following Worm, believed runes to be extremely old and many thought that they derived from Hebrew; likewise, it was believed that they were used to record all Old Norse-Icelandic literature, and that it was the primary, indeed the only script used to record Old Norse literature in manuscripts. |
 | | Worms interest in Hávamál, therefore, was not closely tied to the mythological material on runes. |
 | | Worm discusses at length the possible origins of Runes in Hebrew letters; Resén, in his introduction to Snorra Edda, discusses the various writing systems of Greek, Hebrew, Latin, hieroglyphics, and so on (pp. |
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