Brim-flód

Old English Dictionary Entry

Brim-flód

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: brym-flód, es; Related words:

Definitions

1 brim-flód

m. [brim, flód a flowing, flood] The sea's flowing, the ocean-flood, sea; maris fluctus, cataclysmus = GREEK, mare :-- Heofonsteorran búgaþ brádne hwearft óþ brimflódas the stars of heaven encircle the spacious orb unto the ocean floods, Exon. 53 b; Th. 187, 30; Az. 38. Brymflód cataclysmus, Ælfc. Gl. 115; Som. 80, 45; Wrt. Voc. 61, 23: Cot. 50. brim-flod

Runic Inscription

ᛒᚱᛁᛗ-ᚠᛚᚩᛞ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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