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Full-berstan

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1 full-berstan

to be shattered:--On þyssum þrým stapelum sceall ǽlc cynestól standan . . . and áwácie heora ǽnig, sóna se stól scylfð; anð fulberste heora ǽnig, þonne hrýsð se seól nyðer, Ll. Th. ii. 308, 1: Wlfst. 267, 18. full-berstan
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Runic Inscription

Runic Inscription

ᚠᚢᛚᛚ-ᛒᛖᚱᛋᛏᚪᚾ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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Works & Authors

Ll.
Laws of the Anglo-Saxons
Th.
Thorpe, Benjamin (editor)
Wlfst.
Wulfstan
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