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Old English Dictionary Entry

Hetol-ness

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1 hetol-ness

f. I. as an attribute of a person, violence, severity :-- Weámóde láreówas þurh hetolnysse (rabiem) heora réðscipes gehwyrfað þǽre láre gemet tó ungefóge þǽre wælhreównysse. Chrd. 70, 15. II as an attribute of an animal, ferocity, rapacity, II :-- Hetelnessa rapacitalis (feroces ursinae rapacitatis rictus, Aid. 61, 19), An. Ox. ll, 152. hetol-ness
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Runic Inscription

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ᚻᛖᛏᚩᛚ-ᚾᛖᛋᛋ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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