Ecg-plega

Old English Dictionary Entry

Ecg-plega

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: an; Related words:

Definitions

1 ecg-plega

m. A play of swords, sword-fight, battle; pugna :-- Hie ðám ealdorþegnum cýðan eódon atolne ecgplegan they went to inform the principal thanes of the cruel sword-fight. Judth. 12; Thw. 25, 6; Jud. 246. ecg-plega

Runic Inscription

ᛖᚳᚷ-ᛈᛚᛖᚷᚪ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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