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Fant-hálgung

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1 fant-hálgung

f. Consecration of a font preparatory to baptizing a person :-- Wæter gehálga fonthálgunge hallow water in a font (?), Lch. iii. 24, 17. Þurh þá fonthálgunge gewyrð sóna Godes midwist, and ðurh ðá orðunge þe se sácerd on þæt wæter orðað, þonne hé font hálgað, wyrð deófol þanon áfyrsad, Wlfst. 36, 2.
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Runic Inscription

Runic Inscription

ᚠᚪᚾᛏ-ᚻᚪᛚᚷᚢᛝ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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Wlfst.
Wulfstan
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