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Old English Dictionary Entry

Mann-eáca

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1 mann-eáca

m. An increase of human beings :-- Ðæt hié wǽron ortriéwe hwæðer him ǽnig moneáca cuman sceolde ut defectura successio crederetur (on account of pestilence no children were born alive), Ors. 4, 1; Swt. 158, 20. mann-eaca
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Runic Inscription

Runic Inscription

ᛗᚪᚾᚾ-ᛖᚪᚳᚪ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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Works & Authors

Ors.
Orosius, Historiarum (OE translation by Alfred)
Swt.
Sweet's Anglo-Saxon Reader
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