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Freó-dóm

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1 freó-dóm

m. FREEDOM, liberty; lībertas, emancĭpātio :-- Ðæt is se freódóm, ðætte mon mót dón ðæt he wile that is freedom, that a man may do what he will. Bt. 41, 2; Fox 246, 4, MS. Cot. Freódóm emancĭpātio, Ælfc. Gl. 112 ; Som. 79, 93; Wrt. Voc. 60, 2. Ðám he geaf micle gife freódómes to these he gave the great gift of freedom, Bt. 41, 2; Fox 246, 1. Be ðam freódóme concerning freedom, 41, 2; Fox 246, 13. Nis nán gesceádwís gesceaft ðæt næbbe freódóm there is no rational creature which has not freedom, 40, 7; Fox 242, 17: 34, 8; Fox 144, 26. Freódóm onféngon libertātem recēpērunt, Bd. 3, 24; S. 557, 46: 4, 26; S. 602, 31. freo-dom
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Runic Inscription

Runic Inscription

ᚠᚱᛖᚩ-ᛞᚩᛗ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

Abbreviations Used

Abbreviations Used

Works & Authors

Bd.
Bede, Historia Ecclesiastica (OE translation)
Bt.
Boethius, De Consolatione Philosophiæ (OE translation by Alfred)
Cot.
Cottonian Manuscripts
Fox
Fox, Samuel (Modern English translator of Boethius)
S.
Sievers, E. (editor/scholar)
Som.
Somner's Dictionarium Saxonico-Latino-Anglicum
Voc.
Vocabulary
Wrt.
Wright, T. & Wülcker, R. P., Anglo-Saxon and Old English Vocabularies
Ælfc.
Ælfric
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