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distinctive features include three forms of "s" http://litmuse.maconstate.edu/litwiki/index.php/Image:S_variation_1.jpg ; and the initial "s: shown here in "swifta"  http://litmuse.maconstate.edu/litwiki/index.php/Image:S_variation_2.jpg ; the "r" with a long descender;
distinctive features include three forms of "s" http://litmuse.maconstate.edu/litwiki/index.php/Image:S_variation_1.jpg ; and the initial "s: shown here in "swifta"  http://litmuse.maconstate.edu/litwiki/index.php/Image:S_variation_2.jpg ; the "r" with a long descender;
These examples are taken from folio 180r in ''Beowulf: Reproduced in Facsimile from the Unique Manuscript British Museum MS. Cotton Vitellius A. xv''. Transliterated by Julius Zupitza. 2d ed. Early English Text Society, o.s., 77. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1959.