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Old English Dictionary Entry

For-wirnedness

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1 for-wirnedness

f. Restraint, continence, abstemiousness :-- Hé þá fægerestan bysene forlét, þæt hé wæs micelre forhæfdnesse and forwyrnednesse lífes saluberrimum abstinentiae uel continentiae exemplum reliquit, Bd. 3, 5; Sch. 202, 11. Hé hæfde forwyrnednesse on his líchoman ǽghweðer ge on mete ge on hrægle ge on ághwylcum þinge, Bl. H. 219, 29. for-wirnedness
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Runic Inscription

Runic Inscription

ᚠᚩᚱ-ᚹᛁᚱᚾᛖᛞᚾᛖᛋᛋ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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Abbreviations Used

Works & Authors

Bd.
Bede, Historia Ecclesiastica (OE translation)
Bl.
Blickling Homilies
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