Cwiddung

Old English Dictionary Entry

Cwiddung

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: cwyddung, e; Related words:

Definitions

1 cwiddung

f. A saying, tale, report, speech; dictum, sermunculus :-- Manegra manna cwyddung is it is a saying of many men, Bd. de nat. rernm; Wrt. popl. science 10, 28; Lchdm. iii. 256, 4. Æt fræmdra monna cwiddunge from the report of strangers, Bt. 18, 4; Fox 66, 25. Ná swilce he nyste manna cwyddunga be him not as though he knew not the sayings of men concerning him, Homl. Th. i. 366, 7. cwiddung

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ᚳᚹᛁᛞᛞᚢᛝ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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