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Old English Dictionary Entry

Ge-hýdnes

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1 ge-hýdnes

f. Comfort, security(?) :-- Ðýlæs hie gedwelle sió gehýdnes and ða getǽsu ðe hie on ðæm wege habbaþ lest the comfort and pleasures that they have on the way seduce them, Past. 50, 1; Swt. 387, 13; Hat. MS. See the note on this passage, Swt. 491-2. Or is the word connected with gehýdan? cf. gehýdan III. and the subsidia itineris of the original Latin. ge-hydnes
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Runic Inscription

Runic Inscription

ᚷᛖ-ᚻᚣᛞᚾᛖᛋ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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Works & Authors

Past.
Alfred's Pastoral Care (Gregory's Cura Pastoralis)
Swt.
Sweet's Anglo-Saxon Reader
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