0:20 Nah, those sound changes weren't unique to Northumbria. 0:25 They're attested in multiple manuscripts. 0:51 I think you mean consonant cluster. 1:28 This is something of a misconception. ᛈ is rare in Elder Futhark, but in Futhorc it's not that rare, especially since there are a bunch of ᛖᛈᚪ and ᛈᚪᛞᚪ coins with it on them. 1:43 I don't think we really have to guess. Manuscripts tell us the values of the runes, and the value listed for cweorth multiple times is "q". If the sound value were /kw/ then manuscripts could've easily indicated that by writing "qu" or "cƿ". I think it was just for directly transliterating Latin.
As someone with no real knowledge in this area, I'm going to throw my opinion into the ring regarding Stan. I feel like if it were meant to represent the ST sound than it'd probably be seen more often given how common that sound is
I'd be inclined to agree - I suspect that it's an ideogram that was used in maybe one area or among a small group of people that was seen in non-surviving sources
i have no evidence whatsoever for this (especially if you are correct in saying is the runes are largely unattested) but i would wager that since -stan is a common ending for anglosaxon names it could simply be a shorthand for it (so, say, you could theoretically write 'aethelstan' as 'ᛟᛥ') and as someone else said i think 'cweorth' could plausibly be used specifically for 'qu' in latin derived terms
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0:20 Nah, those sound changes weren't unique to Northumbria.
0:25 They're attested in multiple manuscripts.
0:51 I think you mean consonant cluster.
1:28 This is something of a misconception. ᛈ is rare in Elder Futhark, but in Futhorc it's not that rare, especially since there are a bunch of ᛖᛈᚪ and ᛈᚪᛞᚪ coins with it on them.
1:43 I don't think we really have to guess. Manuscripts tell us the values of the runes, and the value listed for cweorth multiple times is "q". If the sound value were /kw/ then manuscripts could've easily indicated that by writing "qu" or "cƿ". I think it was just for directly transliterating Latin.
As someone with no real knowledge in this area, I'm going to throw my opinion into the ring regarding Stan. I feel like if it were meant to represent the ST sound than it'd probably be seen more often given how common that sound is
I'd be inclined to agree - I suspect that it's an ideogram that was used in maybe one area or among a small group of people that was seen in non-surviving sources
i have no evidence whatsoever for this (especially if you are correct in saying is the runes are largely unattested) but i would wager that since -stan is a common ending for anglosaxon names it could simply be a shorthand for it (so, say, you could theoretically write 'aethelstan' as 'ᛟᛥ')
and as someone else said i think 'cweorth' could plausibly be used specifically for 'qu' in latin derived terms