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Thorn or þorn (Þ, þ) is a letter in the Old English, Old Norse, Old Swedish and modern Icelandic alphabets, as well as modern transliterations of the Gothic alphabet, Middle Scots, and some dialects of Middle English.
In the Anglo-Saxon rune poem it is called thorn, whence the name of the letter þ derived. It is transliterated as þ , and has the sound value of a voiceless dental fricative /θ/ (the English sound of th as in thing ).
The Runic symbol of Thorn, which is a major theme in the film. After an unfavorable critical and commercial response to Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers which came out only a year after Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers, producer Moustapha Akkad put the series on hold to re-evaluate its potential.
The letter eth ð was an alteration of Latin d , and the runic letters thorn þ and wynn ƿ are borrowings from futhorc. Also used was a symbol for the conjunction and , a character similar to the number seven ( ⁊ , called ond or a Tironian et ) which is still used in Irish and Scottish Gaelic , and a symbol for the relative pronoun þæt , a ...
minuscule: ꝥ), or Þ (thorn) with stroke was a scribal abbreviation common in the Middle Ages.It was used for Old English: þæt (Modern English "that"), as well as Old Norse: þor-, the -þan /-ðan in síðan, [1] þat, þæt, and þess.
Also visible is a thorn in the word því. In Icelandic, ð , called "eð", represents an alveolar non-sibilant fricative, voiced intervocalically and word-finally, and voiceless otherwise, which form one phoneme, /θ/. Generally, /θ/ is represented by thorn Þ at the beginning of words and by ð elsewhere.
Eth is also used in Faroese and Elfdalian, while thorn was used in many historical languages such as Old English. The letters æ (capital Æ ) and ö (capital Ö ) are considered as completely separate letters in Icelandic, and are collated as such, even though they originated as a ligature and a diacritical version respectively.
Christ carrying the cross with the crown of thorns, as painted by El Greco, c. 1580s. According to the New Testament, a woven crown of thorns (Ancient Greek: στέφανος ἐξ ἀκανθῶν, romanized: stephanos ex akanthōn or ἀκάνθινος στέφανος, akanthinos stephanos) was placed on the head of Jesus during the events leading up to his crucifixion.