(thing) by ithron Thu Aug 24 2000 at 13:24:41
This was also a letter in the Old English (Anglo-Saxon) language and was called the "æsch" (pron: /ash/).

The æsch in use (excerpts from the original Beowulf manuscript):

Hwæt we Gardena in geardagum ...

Gomban gyldan, ðæt wæs god, cyning!

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