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How do you pronounce Æ? I originally thought it was pronounced like the a in apple, but after looking through some pronunciation comments on Anglo-Saxon names, I'm starting to doubt my original thought.
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The letter is called ash (which in Anglo-Saxon is spelt æsc).
https://www.wordnik.com/words/ash
https://www.wordnik.com/words/ash
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https://public.oed.com/blog/old-english-an-overview/
https://people.umass.edu/sharris/in/gram/GrammarBook/Pronunciation.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Æ
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Æthelstan
https://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~rwest/wikispeedia/wpcd/wp/o/Old_English_language.htm
It certainly seems like in Old English it's pronounced like the IPA /æ/.
https://people.umass.edu/sharris/in/gram/GrammarBook/Pronunciation.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Æ
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Æthelstan
https://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~rwest/wikispeedia/wpcd/wp/o/Old_English_language.htm
It certainly seems like in Old English it's pronounced like the IPA /æ/.
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