Ed-sceaft

Old English Dictionary Entry

Ed-sceaft

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: æd-sceaft, e; Related words:

Definitions

1 ed-sceaft

f. A new creation, new birth; regĕnĕrātio :-- Com swefnes wóma, hú woruld wǽre wundrum geteód ungelíc yldum óþ edsceafte the terror of a dream came, how the world was wondrously framed unlike to men until regeneration, Cd. 177; Th. 222, 30; Dan. 112: Bt. 34, 10; Fox 150, 14, 16. ed-sceaft

Runic Inscription

ᛖᛞ-ᛋᚳᛠᚠᛏ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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