Peohtas

Old English Dictionary Entry

Peohtas

Old English Dictionary Entry

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1 Peohtas

pl. The Picts :-- Ðá férdon Peohtas in Breotone ... Mid ðý Peohtas wíf næfdon ... ðæt is mid Peohtum healden ... Ðridde cynn Breotone onféng on Pehta dǽle, Bd. 1, 1; S. 474, 17-25. On Peohta gereorde, S. 474, 4. Pehta cynn, 5, 24; S. 646, 33. Hí sceoldon feohton wið Pyhtas (Pihtas, MS. A.). Heó ðá fuhton wið Pyhtas, Chr. 449; Erl. 13, 6. peohtas

Runic Inscription

ᛈᛇᚻᛏᚪᛋ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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