lagabókstafir
Lagabókstafir, literally “law-book letters,” is a term used in Icelandic palaeography and codicology to denote the graphemic conventions found in medieval Icelandic legal manuscripts. The expression refers to the characteristic spelling, abbreviations, ligatures, and other scribal practices that appear in legal texts and legal codes rather than in narrative or broader vernacular writing. The concept is most often encountered in studies of early Icelandic law codes, such as Grágás, and in editions of medieval laws where scribes reproduced legal formulas and terminology.
Lagabókstafir is not a formal orthography or a fixed alphabet; rather it describes how scribes wrote legal
In contemporary use, the term mainly appears in academic discourse among historians, philologists, and paleographers working