For-hwerfan

Old English Dictionary Entry

For-hwerfan

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: Related words: for-hwyrfan. for-hwerfan

Definitions

1 for-hwerfan

To transform, pervert; transformāre, pervertĕre :-- Cnihtas wurdon ealle forhwerfde to sumum dióre the men were all transformed to some beast, Bt. Met. Fox 26, 172; Met. 26, 86: Bt. 38, 1; Fox 196, 2. Eówra sáwla má forhwerfdon ðonne hie gerihton they have perverted more of your souls than they have directed, L. Alf. 49; Th. i. 56, 18.

Runic Inscription

ᚠᚩᚱ-ᚻᚹᛖᚱᚠᚪᚾ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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