Circe

Old English Dictionary Entry

Circe

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: an; Related words: cyrice. circe

Definitions

1 circe

f. A church; ecclesia = GREEK :-- Circe ecclesia, Ælfc. Gl. 107; Som. 78, 82; Wrt. Voc. 57, 58. We lǽraþ, ðæt man innan circan ǽnigne man ne birige we enjoin that they do not bury any man within a church, L. Edg. C. 29; Th. ii. 250, 15: Bd. 2, 7; S. 509, 5.

Runic Inscription

ᚳᛁᚱᚳᛖ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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