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Ge-dál

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1 ge-dál

n. A division, separation, parting, distribution; dīvīsio, sepărātio, dīvortium, distrĭbūtio :-- Ðé is gedál witod líces and sáwle a separation of body and soul is decreed to thee, Cd. 43; Th. 57, 19; Gen. 930 : Beo. Th. 6128; B. 3068. Ic uncres gedáles onbád earfoþlíce I awaited our parting in sorrow, Soul Kmbl. 74; Seel. 37 : Bd. 1, 15; S. 483, 37. Se hæfde heortan unhneáweste hringa gedáles he had the most liberal heart in the distribution of rings, Scóp Th. 148; Wíd. 73. Æfter ðæs líchoman gedále and ðære sáwle after the separation of the body and soul, Bt. 18, 4; Fox 68, 12. Ðú ondrǽtst ðé on ðam gedále thou fearest to distribute, Homl. Th. ii. 104, 25. Se todǽlde sǽ reáde on gedál qui dīvīsit măre rubrum in dīvīsiōnes, Ps. Spl. 135, 13. [Cf. O. Eng. Homl. elmes i-dal almsgiving.] DER. ðeáþ-, ealdor-, feorh-, friþ-, gást-, híw-, líf-, nýd-, sáwel-, ðeóden-, woruld-gedál. ge-dal
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ᚷᛖ-ᛞᚪᛚ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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Works & Authors

Bd.
Bede, Historia Ecclesiastica (OE translation)
Beo.
Beowulf
Bt.
Boethius, De Consolatione Philosophiæ (OE translation by Alfred)
Cd.
Codex Diplomaticus Saxonici (Kemble)
Fox
Fox, Samuel (Modern English translator of Boethius)
Gen.
Genesis (OE poem)
Ps.
Psalms (OE)
S.
Sievers, E. (editor/scholar)
Th.
Thorpe, Benjamin (editor)
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