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Old English Dictionary Entry

Bige

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1 bige

n? [bycgan, bicgan to buy] A buying, exchange, commerce, traffic; emptio, permutatio, commercium, mercatus :-- Gif gebyrige ðæt for neóde heora hwilc wið úre bige habban wille, oððe we wið heora, mid yrfe and mid ǽhtum, ðæt is to þafianne if it happen that from necessity any of them will have traffic with us, or we with them, with cattle and with goods, that is to be allowed, L. A. G. 5; Th. i. 156, 2-4. bige
Runic Inscription

Runic Inscription

ᛒᛁᚷᛖ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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Th.
Thorpe, Benjamin (editor)
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