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Old English Dictionary Entry

Ge-limp

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1 ge-limp

n. An event, accident, a chance; accĭdens, cāsus :-- Ðara in gelimpe lífe weóldon of those who in chance possessed life, Exon. 36 b; Th. 118, 13; Gú. 239. Is ǽnig óðer on eallum ðám gelimpum búton godes yrre ofer ðas ðeóde swutol and gesýne is there anything else plain and visible in these events but God's anger over this people? Swt. A. S. Rdr. 109, 137. Ðá forhtede ðe biscop for ðam fǽrlíce gelimpe then the bishop was afraid on account of that dangerous case, Th. An. 121, 5 : Th. Ap. 1, 12. Ðú woldest witan his naman and his gelimp you wanted to know his name and what had befallen him, 16, 4 : 15, 20, 26. ge-limp
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Runic Inscription

Runic Inscription

ᚷᛖ-ᛚᛁᛗᛈ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

Abbreviations Used

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An.
Andreas (OE poem)
Exon.
Exeter Book
Gú.
Guthlac (OE poem)
S.
Sievers, E. (editor/scholar)
Swt.
Sweet's Anglo-Saxon Reader
Th.
Thorpe, Benjamin (editor)
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