Vend is a letter of Old Norse

Old Norse

Old Norse is a North Germanic language that was spoken by inhabitants of Scandinavia and inhabitants of their overseas settlements during the Viking Age, until about 1300....

. It was used to represent the sounds /u/, /v/, and /w/.

It was related to and probably derived from the Old English

Old English language

Old English or Anglo-Saxon is an early form of the English language that was spoken and written by the Anglo-Saxons and their descendants in parts of what are now England and southeastern Scotland between at least the mid-5th century and the mid-12th century...

 letter Wynn

Wynn

Wynn is a letter of the Old English alphabet, where it is used to represent the sound ....

 (Runic alphabet

Runic alphabet

The runic alphabets are a set of related alphabets using letters known as runes to write various Germanic languages before the adoption of the Latin alphabet and for specialized purposes thereafter...

 ᚹ and later the Latin alphabet

Latin alphabet

The Latin alphabet, also called the Roman alphabet, is the most recognized alphabet used in the world today. It evolved from a western variety of the Greek alphabet called the Cumaean alphabet, which was adopted and modified by the Etruscans who ruled early Rome...

 ), except that the bowl was open on the top, not being connected to the stem, which made it somewhat resemble a letter Y

Y

Y is the twenty-fifth letter in the basic modern Latin alphabet and represents either a vowel or a consonant in English.-Name:In Latin, Y was named Y Graeca "Greek Y". This was pronounced as I Graeca "Greek I", since Latin speakers had trouble pronouncing , which was not a native sound...

. It was eventually replaced with v or u for most writings.

in Unicode and HTML Entities

Latin Capital Letter Vend	Ꝩ	U+A768 and Ꝩ
Latin Small Letter Vend	ꝩ	U+A769 and ꝩ
Runic Letter Wynn		U+16B9 and ᚹ
Latin Capital Letter Wynn	Ƿ	U+01F7 and Ƿ
Latin Letter Wynn	ƿ	U+01BF and ƿ