* Lars Marius Garshol
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| I am not sure of this, but I think 'å' is a relatively modern
| invention, and that it was originally written only as 'aa'.
* Stefan Persson
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| FYI, "a relatively modern invention" means that is has been used
| since the Medieval (in Swedish).
I don't think that is the case in Norwegian and Danish. The Norwegian
constitution from 1814, for example, uses 'ø' and 'æ', but never 'å'.
Possibly this was a Swedish invention only adopted later by the Danes
and Norwegians.
--Lars M.
