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Old English Dictionary Entry

For-slegenlic

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1 for-slegenlic

adj. Shameful, ignominious :-- God hine (John the Baptist) forlét swá forslegenlicne (cf. (?) for-slegen profligatus. II. 2; or (?) l. for-segenlicne ( = -sewen-) one MS. has forsewenlíce) and swá orwyrðlicne deáð þrowian, Mart. H. 156, 20. for-slegenlic
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Runic Inscription

Runic Inscription

ᚠᚩᚱ-ᛋᛚᛖᚷᛖᚾᛚᛁᚳ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc