Bod-scipe

Old English Dictionary Entry

Bod-scipe

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: es; Related words:

Definitions

1 bod-scipe

m. [bod a command, scipe] A message, an embassy, a commandment; nuntium, mandatum :-- Swá ic him ðisne bodscipe secge when I tell him this message, Cd. 27; Th. 35, 10; Gen. 552. Ðá hie Godes hæfdon bodscipe abrocen when they had broken God's commandment, 37; Th. 48, 29; Gen. 783. DER. ge-bodscipe. bod-scipe

Runic Inscription

ᛒᚩᛞ-ᛋᚳᛁᛈᛖ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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