Old English - The Rune Ethel

Old english had a ligature combining two latin letters, but only briefly. This letter was called ethel, and it fused together the letters o and e. Ethel is absent from the vast majority of extant anglo saxon literature because by the time this literature was written down in west saxon old English dialects, the vowel sound that ethel represented had merged with the vowel sound a. The o e ligarature did re emerge in english during the renaissance, but from a different source. In classical latin, o e represented the dif thong o. If you break it down, difthong, o glides from the o to the a sound,