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Old English Dictionary Entry

Bord-rima

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1 bord-rima

m. The edge of a plank :-- Bordremum rimis (the passage to which the gloss belongs is: 'Rimis patentibus intravit mare,' which is translated: 'Geoniendum þám ceólum se sǽ eode inn, Gr. D. 248, 27 ; so that bordremum refers to the edges of the ship's planks which parted from one another, thus making a gap through which the sea entered), Txts. 114, 112. bord-rima
Runic Inscription

Runic Inscription

ᛒᚩᚱᛞ-ᚱᛁᛗᚪ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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Gr.
Ælfric's Grammar
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