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Fisc-wylle

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1 fisc-wylle

adj. [cf. weallan to swarm] Full of fish, abounding in fish; piscíbus abundans, piscōsus :-- Ðæt eálond is fiscwylle the island is abounding in fish, Bd. 1, 1; S. 474, 41. Fiscwyllum wæterum flŭviis piscōsis, 1, 1; S. 473, 15. Fiscwelle bisarius? [= piscārius], Wrt. Voc. 66, 8. fisc-wylle
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Runic Inscription

Runic Inscription

ᚠᛁᛋᚳ-ᚹᚣᛚᛚᛖ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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Works & Authors

Bd.
Bede, Historia Ecclesiastica (OE translation)
S.
Sievers, E. (editor/scholar)
Voc.
Vocabulary
Wrt.
Wright, T. & Wülcker, R. P., Anglo-Saxon and Old English Vocabularies
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