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Old English Dictionary Entry

Be-sellan

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Definitions

Definitions

1 definitions

1 be-sellan

p. -sealde, -salde, pl. -sealdon, -saldon; pp. -seald [be by, about, sellan to give] To surround, bring on; circumdare, obducere :-- Sinnihte beseald surrounded with perpetual night, Cd. 2; Th. 3, 27; Gen. 42. be-sellan
Runic Inscription

Runic Inscription

ᛒᛖ-ᛋᛖᛚᛚᚪᚾ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

Abbreviations Used

Abbreviations Used

Works & Authors

Cd.
Codex Diplomaticus Saxonici (Kemble)
Gen.
Genesis (OE poem)
Th.
Thorpe, Benjamin (editor)
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