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Gader-tang, gæder-teng

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1 gader-tang, gæder-teng

l. -tenge, and add: Contiguous, conjoint, in contact or connexion:--Gædertangne conjunctim (-um?), Wrt. Voc. ii. 136, 33. (1) of material things:--Ðá landgemǽro ðæsse búrlandes tó Abbendúne, ðæt is gadertang on þreó genamod, ðæt is Hengestes íg and Seofocanwyrð and Wihthám (i. e. the land lies altogether but it is divided into three parts, each with its own name), C. D. with dat.:--Se milte bið emlang and gædertenge þǽre wambe, Lch. ii. 242, 15. Se maga biþ neáh þǽre heortan . . . and geadortenge (connected with) þám bræg[en]e, 176, 3. (2) of non-material things, continuous:--Sóþe lufe gædertange hæbbende caritatem continuam habentes, Scint. 1, 4. Þurh seofen gædertange (printed -lange) dagas per septem continuos dies, Angl. xiii. 444, 1127. gæder-teng,gader-tang
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Runic Inscription

Runic Inscription

ᚷᚪᛞᛖᚱ-ᛏᚪᛝ, ᚷᚫᛞᛖᚱ-ᛏᛖᛝ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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C.
Corpus Christi College MS
Voc.
Vocabulary
Wrt.
Wright, T. & Wülcker, R. P., Anglo-Saxon and Old English Vocabularies
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