Lancelot of the Laik: A Scottish Metrical Romance (About 1490-1500 A. D.)

There are also a few letters with macron (“long” mark). If any of these characters do not display properly—in particular, if the diacritic does not appear directly above the letter—or if the apostrophes and quotation marks in this paragraph appear as garbage, you may have an incompatible browser or unavailable fonts. First, make sure that the browser’s “character set” or “file encoding” is set to Unicode (UTF-8). You may also need to change your browser’s default font.
Unlike most EETS productions, this book was printed with long “s” (ſ). The editor’s Introduction says:
We find, in the MS., both the long and the twisted s (ſ and s). These have been noted down as they occur, though I do not observe any law for their use. The letter “ß” has been adopted as closely resembling a symbol in the MS., which apparently has the force of double s , and is not unlike the “ sz ” used in modern German hand-writing.
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In the Glossary, ȝ (yogh) is alphabetized as z.



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