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Earm-cearig

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1 earm-cearig

adj. Miserable and sad; mĭser et tristis :-- Hú ic, earm-cearig, íscealdne sǽ, winter wunade how I passed a winter, miserable and sad, on the ice-cold sea, Exon. 81 b; Th. 306, 27; Seef. 14: 76 b; Th. 287, 26; Wand. 20. earm-cearig
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Runic Inscription

Runic Inscription

ᛠᚱᛗ-ᚳᛠᚱᛁᚷ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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Exon.
Exeter Book
Th.
Thorpe, Benjamin (editor)
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