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Ȝ ȝ (yogh)
ħ (h with stroke)
łł (l with slash, see below)
ā ē ī ō ū ȳ ǣ (vowels with macron or “long” mark)
ẹ̄ ę̄ and ǭ ọ̄, each representing open/closed pairs
e͞o (eo with shared macron) used as a stand-in for e᷍o

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Except for yogh, h-stroke and paired ł, unusual letters appear onlyin the editorial material (introduction, notes and glossary). For thise-text, the printed book’s circumflex accents have been shown asmacrons—that is, ǣ instead of æ̂ and similar—except for“true” circumflexes in modern French citations and the word “rôle”. Thecharacter shown here as e͞o was printed as “eo” joined by a singlecircumflex. In the Trentham MS. of Floriz and Blauncheflur, and a fewtimes in the Assumption, some letters were printed with “end flourishes”(see Introduction under “Manuscripts”). They are printed asg⁺, k⁺, n⁾ and similar. In the samepassages, the double letter “ll” printed with a joining wavy line isshown as łł.

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