The sources
The Icelandic Rune Poem
Four manuscripts carry this poem, all of them in the Arnamagnaean Library at Copenhagen. AM 687 4to is fifteenth-century parchment and has the runes without their names. AM 461 12mo is sixteenth-century parchment and has the names without the runes. AM 749 4to is seventeenth-century paper and gives names and letters in alphabetical order, followed by the dotted runes. AM 413 folio is an eighteenth-century copy of sixteenth-century parchments, made for Jón Ólafsson of Grunnavík.
The oldest of them has the runes without their names and a later one has the names without the runes. That is not an argument about whether the names belong to the text. It is a photograph of them being separate, and it stands beside Hickes putting two names on the wrong runes.
Sixteen stanzas of three kennings each. The first and second lines are joined by alliteration and the third carries two alliterating syllables of its own. Every stanza also ends with two words the poem does not need, a Latin equivalent of the rune name and an Old Norse word for king beginning with the same letter, so the manuscript runs a glossary and an alphabetical king-list straight through the poem.
By the fifteenth century the Icelandic runic alphabet had more than sixteen letters, and the poem still treats only sixteen. Dickins calls that perhaps natural if the poem is derived from a much earlier original. The newer dotted letters had no names of their own either. They were simply stunginn Íss and stunginn Týr, dotted Is and dotted Tyr, which is the cleanest evidence on this site that a name is not something a letter automatically has.