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Old English Dictionary Entry

Ge-mearc

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1 ge-mearc

n. A boundary, limit; lŏcus designātus :-- Gewát him se æðeling to ðæs gemearces ðe him Metod tǽhte the man departed to the limit which the Lord had shewn him, Cd. 139; Th. 174, 28; Gen. 2885. DER. fót-gemearc, fyrst-, geár-, míl-, þing-, word-. ge-mearc
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Runic Inscription

Runic Inscription

ᚷᛖ-ᛗᛠᚱᚳ

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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