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Old English Dictionary Entry

Ge-hende

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adj. Neighbouring, next; vicinus :-- On gehende túnas in proximos vicos, Mk. Bos. 1, 38 : 6, 36. Ðá férdon hí to gehendre byrig then they went to a neighbouring city, Homl. Th. i. 456, 5. Ðæt hý ðǽr, gehendaste wǽron on gehwylc land ðanon to winnanne that they there should be most handy for waging war thence on every land, Ors. 3, 7; Bos. 61, 5. ge-hende
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Runic Inscription

Runic Inscription

ᚷᛖ-ᚻᛖᚾᛞᛖ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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Works & Authors

Mk.
Gospel of St. Mark (OE translation)
Ors.
Orosius, Historiarum (OE translation by Alfred)
Th.
Thorpe, Benjamin (editor)
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