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Eth (Ð, ð), also spelt ''edh'' or ''eð'', is a Letter used in Old English (Anglo-Saxon); present-day Icelandic ; the Faroese Alphabet , in which it is called ''edd''; and the orthography for Scandinavian Älvdalsmål . It was also used in Medieval Scandinavia , but was subsequently replaced with ''dh'' and later ''d''. The capital eth resembles a Roman D with a line partially through the vertical stroke. The lowercase resembles a curved Roman d with a line through the top. The letter originated in Irish writing (Freeborn 1992, 24) as a ''d'' with a cross-stroke added. The lowercase version has retained the curved shape of a Medieval scribe's ''d'', which ''d'' itself in general has not (but see for instance the Audi logo). In Icelandic, ''ð'' represents a are, and when the ''ð'' is before ''r'' it is in a few words pronounced as . In the Icelandic and Faroese Alphabet s, ''ð'' follows ''d''. In Olav Jakobsen Høyem 's version of Nynorsk based on Trøndersk , the ''ð'' is always silent and is introduced for etymological reasons. In the orthography for Elfdalian , the ''ð'' represents a Voiced Dental Fricative like ''th'' in English "them", and it follows ''d'' in the alphabet. In Old English , ''ð'' was used interchangeably with þ (thorn) to represent either voiced or voiceless dental fricatives. The letter ''ð'' was used throughout the Anglo-Saxon era, but gradually fell out of use in Middle English , disappearing altogether by about 1300; ''þ'' survived longer, ultimately being replaced by the modern digraph ''th'' by about 1500. The ''ð'' is also used by some in written Welsh to represent the letter 'dd' (the voiced dental fricative). Lower-case eth is used as a symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), again for a Voiced Dental Fricative , and in IPA usage, the name of the symbol is pronounced with the same voiced sound, as . (The IPA symbol for the voiceless dental fricative is θ .) COMPUTER ENCODING
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Prince By-Tor takes the cavern to the North light, The sign of Eth is rising in the air REFERENCES
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