Latin script texts with ideographic runes

thumb|"The Stranger at the Door" (1908) by W. G. Collingwood '''''' ("Words of Hávi [the High One]" in Old Norse) is presented as a single poem in the Codex Regius, a collection of Old Norse poems from the Viking age. A scholarly estimate of 's age dates the poem to between 900 and 1000 A.D. The poem, itself a combination of numerous shorter poems, is largely gnomic, presenting advice for living, proper conduct and wisdom. It is considered an important source of Old Norse philosophy.

Anglo-Saxon anthology of texts, many of which are riddles

thumb|right|A page of the late 13th century law . ' ( or ) or the Västgöta (Westrogothic) law' is the oldest Swedish text written in Latin script and the oldest of all Swedish provincial laws. It was compiled in the early 13th century, probably at least partly at the instigation of Eskil Magnusson and was the code of law used in the provinces of Västergötland and Dalsland and in Mo härad during the latter half of that century. The earliest complete text is dated 1281. Small fragments of an older text have been dated 1250.

sole surviving manuscript of Beowulf