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Cehhettung

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1 cehhettung

f. A laughing in a cackling manner, a laugh of scorn, scorn; cachinnus, contemptus :-- Hwelce cehhettunge ge woldon ðæs habban, and mid hwelcum hleahtre ge woldon beón astyred what scorn ye would have at this, and with what laughter ye would be moved, Bt. 16, 2; Fox 52, 4.
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Runic Inscription

Runic Inscription

ᚳᛖᚻᚻᛖᛏᛏᚢᛝ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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Works & Authors

Bt.
Boethius, De Consolatione Philosophiæ (OE translation by Alfred)
Fox
Fox, Samuel (Modern English translator of Boethius)
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