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Old English Dictionary Entry

þreá-nídla

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1 þreá-nídla

m. Painful constraint, restraint of punishment, oppression :-- Béc ámyrgaþ módsefan of ðreánýdlan ðisses lífes books bring the mind to mirth from the painful pressure of this life, Salm. Kmbl. 481; Sal. 241. Ðonne wyrd and warnung winnaþ mid hira ðreánýdlan hwæðerne áðreóteþ ǽr when fate and prudence strive, each with its own hard constraint, which of the two tires first? 857; Sal. 428. Nealles sylfes willum ac for þreánédlan, Beo. Th. 4450; B. 2224. Hé þeóstra þegnas þreániédlum bond he bound the ministers of darkness with penal restraints, Exon. Th. 143, 29; Gú. 668. þrea-nidla
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Runic Inscription

Runic Inscription

ᚦᚱᛖᚪ-ᚾᛁᛞᛚᚪ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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Works & Authors

Beo.
Beowulf
Exon.
Exeter Book
Gú.
Guthlac (OE poem)
Sal.
Psalms of Solomon (OE)
Th.
Thorpe, Benjamin (editor)
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