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Old English Dictionary Entry

Sýring

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f. Butter-milk :-- Hwæg serum, sýring raptura, rynning coagulum, Wrt. Voc. i. 27, 68-70. Sýring baptua, ii. 12, 64. Sceáp-hyrdes riht is ðæt hé hæbbe bléde fulle hweges oððe sýringe ealne sumor, L. R. S. 14; Th. i. 438, 25. Cýswyrhtan gebyreþ ðæt heó of wring-hwæge buteran macige tó hláfordes beóde, and hæbbe ða sýringe ealle búton ðæs hyrdes dǽle, 16; Th. i. 438, 33. [Cf. Icel. sýra sour whey used as a drink instead of small beer.] syring
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Runic Inscription

Runic Inscription

ᛋᚣᚱᛝ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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Common Abbreviations

Icel.
Icelandic
L.
Latin

Works & Authors

R.
Riddles (Exeter Book)
S.
Sievers, E. (editor/scholar)
Th.
Thorpe, Benjamin (editor)
Voc.
Vocabulary
Wrt.
Wright, T. & Wülcker, R. P., Anglo-Saxon and Old English Vocabularies
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