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Old English Dictionary Entry

Feorh-ádl

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1 feorh-ádl

f. A mortal disease, fatal sickness; fatālis morbus :-- Biþ his feorhádl getenge his fatal sickness is near, L. M. 3, 22; Lchdm. ii. 320, 20. Herodes lǽfde fíf suna, þrý he hét acwellan, on his feorhádle, ǽrðan ðe he gewíte Herod left five sons, three he commanded to be slain in his last illness, ere he departed, Homl. Th. i. 478, 13. feorh-adl
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ᚠᛇᚱᚻ-ᚪᛞᛚ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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Thorpe, Benjamin (editor)
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