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Old English Dictionary Entry

Folc-leásung

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1 folc-leásung

f. Folk-leasing, public lying, slander; publĭcum mendäcium, călumnia :-- Be folcleásunge gewyrhtum. Gif mon folcleásunge gewyrce, mid nánum leóhtran þinge gebéte ðonne him mon aceorfe ða tungan of of those committing slander. If a man commit slander, let him make amends with no lighter thing than that his tongue be cut out, L. Alf. pol. 32; Th. i. 80, 19-82, 1. folc-leasung
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ᚠᚩᛚᚳ-ᛚᛖᚪᛋᚢᛝ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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Thorpe, Benjamin (editor)
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