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Old English Dictionary Entry

Ende-mann

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1 ende-mann

m. A person living in the latest age of the world :-- Wé endemenn ðyssere worulde (for the ideas of the time as to the end of the world cf. Wlfst. 156, 4 ; Ðeós woruld is on ofste and hit neálǽcð þám ende), Hml. Th. i. 476, 18. Fela hálige menn fram frymðe middaneardes wǽron beforan ús, þám wé nú endemenn geefenlǽcan ne magon, Hml. S. 12, 281. ende-mann
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Runic Inscription

Runic Inscription

ᛖᚾᛞᛖ-ᛗᚪᚾᚾ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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Works & Authors

Hml.
Homilies (Ælfric or other)
S.
Sievers, E. (editor/scholar)
Th.
Thorpe, Benjamin (editor)
Wlfst.
Wulfstan
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