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Tin-tregian

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1 tin-tregian

p. ode To torment, torture, afflict :-- Ða ðe hé ne mæg fram rihtan geleáfan tó him gebígan, ðonne tintregaþ hé ða on mænigfælde wísan, Wulfst. 197, 7: Blickl. Homl. 59, 31. Philippus hí miclum tintrade (tintergade, MS. C.) and bismrade, Ors. 3, 7; Swt. 118, 25. Se kásere hine tintregode mid unásecgendlícum wítum, Shrn. 116, 1. Ða ðe tintergedon ðone hálgan wer, 73, 1. Hí tintregodon hine and forléton hine sámcucene plagis impositis abierunt semivivo reticto, Lk. Skt. 10, 30. Ða wífmen hié swá tintredon, Ors. 1, 10; Swt. 48, 13. Ðeáh ðe ðæt fýr tintregige ða unrihtwísan, Homl. Th. ii. 590, 3. Hét swingan and tintregian ðone Godes andettere caedi Dei confessorem a tortoribus praecepit, Bd. 1, 7; S. 477, 42. Tintergian, Shrn. 76, 33. Tinterga torquere, Mt. Kmbl. Rush. 8, 29. Decius gewende tó tintregienne ða cristenan, Homl. Th. ii. 424, 19. Tó tintreinne torquendus, cruciandus, Hpt. Gl. 482, 35. Ðǽr hé tintregad wearð; ǽrest hiene mon swong, ða sticode him mon ða eágan út, and siþþan him mon slóg ða handa of, ðá ðæt heáfod, Ors. 4, 5; Swt. 168, 3, [Heo eow tintraȝed and heow iswenchet, O. E. Homl. i. 13, 30. Cf. O. Sax. tregan to trouble: Icel. trega.]
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Runic Inscription

ᛏᛁᚾ-ᛏᚱᛖᚷᛁᚪᚾ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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Icel.
Icelandic
O. Sax.
Old Saxon

Works & Authors

Bd.
Bede, Historia Ecclesiastica (OE translation)
C.
Corpus Christi College MS
Lk.
Gospel of St. Luke (OE translation)
Mt.
Gospel of St. Matthew (OE translation)
Ors.
Orosius, Historiarum (OE translation by Alfred)
S.
Sievers, E. (editor/scholar)
Shrn.
Shrine (collection of OE texts)
Swt.
Sweet's Anglo-Saxon Reader
Th.
Thorpe, Benjamin (editor)
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