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Old English Dictionary Entry

Feor-cund

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1 feor-cund

adj. Come from afar; perĕgrīnus :-- Gif feorcund mon, oððe fremde, bútan wege geond wudu gorge, and ne hriéme ne horn bláwe, for þeóf he biþ to prófianne, oððe to sleánne oððe to aliésanne if a far-come man, or a stranger, journey through a wood out of the highway, and neither shout nor blow his horn, he is to be held for a thief, either to be slain or redeemed, L. In. 20; Th. i. 114, 15-116, 2. feor-cund
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ᚠᛇᚱ-ᚳᚢᚾᛞ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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Th.
Thorpe, Benjamin (editor)
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