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Fór-word

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1 fór-word

n. A fore-word, stipulation, agreement; præcautio, pactum :-- Ðæt hire frýnd ða fórword habban that her friends have the stipulations, L. Edm. B. 7; Th. i. 256, 2. Ðis synd ða fórword ðe Æðelréd cyng and ealle his witan wið ðone here gedón habbaþ these are the agreements which king Æthelred and all his counsellors have made with the army, L. Eth. ii. prm; Th. i. 284, 6. cf. fóre-weard, e; f. for-word
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Runic Inscription

Runic Inscription

ᚠᚩᚱ-ᚹᚩᚱᛞ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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Thorpe, Benjamin (editor)
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