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Old English Dictionary Entry

For-healdan

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1 for-healdan

to withhold, keep back, disregard; detinēre, neglīgĕre, contemnĕre :-- Hæfdon hý forhealden helm Scylfinga they had disregarded the helm of the Scylfings [had deserted him], Beo. Th. 4751; B. 2381: Bt. 29, 1; Fox 102, 17. [Ger. ver-halten to reserve, withhold, conceal.] for-healdan
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Runic Inscription

Runic Inscription

ᚠᚩᚱ-ᚻᛠᛚᛞᚪᚾ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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Works & Authors

Beo.
Beowulf
Bt.
Boethius, De Consolatione Philosophiæ (OE translation by Alfred)
Fox
Fox, Samuel (Modern English translator of Boethius)
Th.
Thorpe, Benjamin (editor)
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