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... ð ...?

Oh for crying out

HEIMDALL IF YOU ONLY HAD ANY IDEA OF HOW MUCH ICELANDIC I PUT INTO THAT TEXT BOX EARLIER TODAY

It's even funnier if you think about it that ð can be th [sometimes like þ too. I see them interchanged sometimes??? þ makes the th sound, but ð is eth which ended up just becoming D after a while? ] like in Thor Lmfaooo.

Perhaps coincides with "a part of what his parents gave him" his name!

Yuuup.

Yup.

Brilliant!!

But we'll have to see if that is right..

ð.

YOU GUYS ROCK.

So, the difference between thorn (þ) and eth (ð) is that thorn is voiceless and eth is voiced. Like the difference between "thing" and "the." Although eth isn't quite that simple. It's sorta like a voiced "th" mixed with "d" so it generally gets Anglicized as "d."

Isn't thorn used for eth in runes?

Yup, in the younger and elder futharks they're represented by the same letter. In the younger futhark especially a lot of different sounds are written the same since there are only 16 letters. Later it was expanded again into the futhork, and eth and thorn got 2 different letters.