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Old English Dictionary Entry

Feorh-lást

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1 feorh-lást

m. A life-step, step taken to preserve one's life, flight; vītæ vestīgium, gressus vītæ servandæ causå lātus, fŭga :-- He onweg ðanon on nicera mere, fǽge and geflýmed, feorhlástas bær he bore his life-steps away thence to the monsters' mere, death-doomed and put to flight, Beo. Th. 1697; B. 846. feorh-last
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Runic Inscription

Runic Inscription

ᚠᛇᚱᚻ-ᛚᚪᛋᛏ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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Works & Authors

Beo.
Beowulf
Th.
Thorpe, Benjamin (editor)
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