Talk:Öpir

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Bad spelling

I'm skeptical about the characterization of Öpir as a bad speller the better part of a millennia before standardized spelling became the norm. What is described here could, I think, more neutrally be described as an idiosyncracy that might represent error but seems equally likely to represent dialect, an artistic choice, or even an innovation that never caught on. House of Scandal 00:20, 14 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

True, his use of the h phoneme was a dialectal trait, but I have still not been able to find a good reference for it. In fact this dialectal trait still survives in Roslagen from where he is believed to hail. However, the best you can say about his spelling is that it was inconsistent, even when he wrote his own name. Considering the time and effort it took to make a runestone, he could have bothered to enquire about whether words began with h or not ;-).--Berig 07:47, 14 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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