![]() ![]() ![]() ) It was used up to the nineteenth century in Britain and continues to be familiar in Germany. Another realisation, common in roundhand, kurrent and blackletter, takes the form of an ⟨n⟩ whose rightmost branch curved around as in a cursive ⟨v⟩ (viz. Scribal realisation of the digraph could look like a pair of Vs whose branches crossed in the middle: both forms (separate and crossed) appear for instance in the "running text" (in Latin) of the Bayeux tapestry in proper names such as EDVVARDVS, VVILLELMVS, etc. ![]() In early Middle English, following the 11th-century Norman Conquest, ⟨uu⟩ gained popularity again and by 1300 it had taken wynn's place in common use. The digraph was commonly used in the spelling of Old High German, but only in the earliest texts in Old English, where the /w/ sound soon came to be represented by borrowing the rune ⟨ᚹ⟩, adapted as the Latin letter wynn: ⟨ƿ⟩. It is from this ⟨uu⟩ digraph that the modern name "double U" derives. The digraph ⟨VV⟩/ ⟨uu⟩ was also used in Medieval Latin to represent Germanic names, including Gothic ones like Wamba. Gothic (not Latin-based), by contrast, had simply used a letter based on the Greek Υ for the same sound in the 4th century. The Germanic /w/ phoneme was therefore written as ⟨VV⟩ or ⟨uu⟩ ( ⟨ u⟩ and ⟨ v⟩ becoming distinct only by the Early Modern period) by the earliest writers of Old English and Old High German, in the 7th or 8th centuries. A letter W appearing in the coat of arms of Vyborg
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