Dorm-ceaster

Old English Dictionary Entry

Dorm-ceaster

Old English Dictionary Entry

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1 Dorm-ceaster

gen. -ceastre; f. [by the Britons called Cair-Dorm, by Antonīnus Durobrivæ, from the passage over the water; and the Anglo-Saxons, for the same reason, called it also Dornford] Dornford or Dorgford, in Huntingdonshire, on the river Nen, Som. Ben. Lye. dorm-ceaster

Runic Inscription

ᛞᚩᚱᛗ-ᚳᛠᛋᛏᛖᚱ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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