Fór-werd

Old English Dictionary Entry

Fór-werd

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: e; Related words: 25, 29. v. fóre-weard, e;

Definitions

1 fór-werd

f. A fore-ward, precaution, contract, agreement; præcautio, pactum :-- Hér swutelaþ ymb ða fórwerda ðe Wulfric and se arcebisceop geworhton here is made known concerning the agreements which Wulfric and the archbishop made, Cod. Dipl. 738; A.D. 1023; Kmbl. if. for-werd

Runic Inscription

ᚠᚩᚱ-ᚹᛖᚱᛞ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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