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Old English Dictionary Entry

Geápes

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1 geápes

adv. [gen. of geáp broad, spacious, roomy] In width, wide; lāte :-- Strúdende fýr, steápes and geápes, forswealh eall eador the ravaging fire swallowed all together, high and wide, Cd. 119; Th. 154, 16; Gen. 2556. So Bouterwek takes it, but the word is rather a neuter genitive after 'eall;' cf. v
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Runic Inscription

Runic Inscription

ᚷᛖᚪᛈᛖᛋ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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Cd.
Codex Diplomaticus Saxonici (Kemble)
Gen.
Genesis (OE poem)
Th.
Thorpe, Benjamin (editor)
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