Citations:overgang

Adjective: being, pertaining to, or marked with transitional runes

 * 1871, George Stephens, Some Account of Scandinavian Runic Stones, in Archaeologia: Or Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity, page 112:
 * I first identified it on the overgang (transitional, Old-Northern mixed with Scandinavian runic letters,) stone at Vordingborg, Denmark, engraved and translated at pp. 336-7
 * 1884, George Stephens et al, The Old-northern Runic Monuments of Scandinavia and England:
 * It was, as I have said under 'Raefsar', Mr. Brusewitz who first suspected that this might be an overgang stone, a hint so happily followed up by Dr. Charles Dickson.
 * 1884, George Stephens, Handbook of the old-northern runic monument of Scandinavia:
 * On the rim of the Chalice is an overgang-alphabet of 21 letters, of which only 2 are distinctively later or Scandinavian.
 * 1894, George Stephens, The Runes, Whence Came They?, page 65:
 * Thus an overgang block. 208. Molde, Gotland, Sweden. The later runes. The name of the Builder. Cannot be further dated.