Bedan ford-scír

Old English Dictionary Entry

Bedan ford-scír

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: Bæda-ford-scír, Beada-ford-scír, Bede-ford-scír, e ; Related words:

Definitions

1 Bedan ford-scír

f. BEDFORDSHIRE; comitatus nomen :-- Hí hæfdon ofergán Bedan fordscíre they had subjugated Bedfordshire, Chr. 1011; Th. 266, 5, col. 2. Wende him út into Bedan fordscíre egressus est in Bedanfordsciram, 1016; Th. 278, 16, col. 1. bedan ford-scir

Runic Inscription

ᛒᛖᛞᚪᚾ ᚠᚩᚱᛞ-ᛋᚳᛁᚱ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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