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Old English Dictionary Entry

Beorg-ford

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1 Beorg-ford

m. [beorg a hill, ford a ford; collis ad vadum] BURFORD in Oxfordshire :-- Hér Cúþréd, Wæst-Seaxna cining, gefeaht ðý xxii geára his ríces, æt Beorgforda [MS. Beorhforda], wið Æðelbald, Myrcena cing, and hine geflýmde here, in 752, Cuthred, king of the West-Saxons, fought in the twenty-second year of his reign, at Burford, with Æthelbald, king of the Mercians, and conquered him, Chr. 752; Erl. 49, 13. beorg-ford
Runic Inscription

Runic Inscription

ᛒᛇᚱᚷ-ᚠᚩᚱᛞ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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Abbreviations Used

Works & Authors

Chr.
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
Erl.
Earle, J. (editor)
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