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óþ-bregdan

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1 óþ-bregdan

to take away, carry off :-- Ða burgleóde óþbrúdon ða snore mid hiere suna, and hí sendon on óðer fæstre fæsten. Ors. 3, II; Swt. 148, 21. Hæbbe hé Godes unmiltse, se ðe ðis áwende and ðere stówe óþbréde, Cod. Dip. Kmbl. ii. 4, 3. Hé (Nero when Rome was burning bebeád his ágnum monnum ðæt hié gegripen ðæs licgendan feós swá hié mǽst mehten, and tó him brohten, ðonne hit mon út óþbrúde, Ors. 6, 5; Swt. 260, 32. Siððan wearþ Adame eardríca cyst óþbróden, Exon. Th. 153, 15 ; Gú. 826. Óþbrog[d]en ademptam, Wrt. Voc. ii. 9, 18. Óþbródenum hwelpum raptis festibus, Kent. Gl. 607.
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Runic Inscription

Runic Inscription

ᚩᚦ-ᛒᚱᛖᚷᛞᚪᚾ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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Abbreviations Used

Works & Authors

Exon.
Exeter Book
Gú.
Guthlac (OE poem)
Ors.
Orosius, Historiarum (OE translation by Alfred)
Swt.
Sweet's Anglo-Saxon Reader
Th.
Thorpe, Benjamin (editor)
Voc.
Vocabulary
Wrt.
Wright, T. & Wülcker, R. P., Anglo-Saxon and Old English Vocabularies
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