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It contains mainly excerpts of Grammatical texts, including the ''Ars minor'' and ''Ars maior'' of Aelius Donatus , the grammar of Priscian , the '' Etymologiae '' of Isidore Of Sevilla and the grammar of Alcuin . Furthermore, it contains a presentation of the Greek Alphabet , the Hebrew Alphabet , the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc and the Scandinavian Younger Futhark , the latter in the form of a short Rune Poem known as the Abecedarium Nordmannicum. Bischoff (1980) considers the manuscript a personal collection or ''brevarium'' of Walahfrid Strabo 's, who from 827 was in Fulda as a student of Hrabanus Maurus , and from 838 was abbot of the Reichenau Abbey . Hrabanus himself is known to have been interested in runes, and he is credited with the treatise ''Hrabani Mauri abbatis fuldensis, de inventione linguarum ab Hebraea usque ad Theodiscam'' ("on the invention of languages, from Hebrew to German"), identifying the Hebrew and Germanic ("Theodish") languages with their respective alphabets. THE ABECEDARIUM NORDMANNICUM The text of the rune poem was unfortunately destroyed in the 19th century, by chemicals intended for its preservation. It survives in a 1828 drawing by Wilhelm Grimm . Under a heading ''ABECEDARIUM NORD'' it presents the Younger Futhark in three lines, read by Derolez (1965) as: | ||
| "tiu" class="copylinks" target="_blank">{Link without Title} brica endi man lagu the leohto yr al bihabet |
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