Ge-rihtnes

Old English Dictionary Entry

Ge-rihtnes

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: -ness, e; Related words:

Definitions

1 ge-rihtnes

f. A setting right, correction; correctio :-- Be heora gerihtnesse de illōrum correctiōne, Bd. 5, 22; S. 644, 45. He wæs firena forgifnes and gerihtnes hǽþenra þeóda he was forgiveness of sins and the setting right of heathen peoples, Blickl. Homl. 163, 23. ge-rihtnes

Runic Inscription

ᚷᛖ-ᚱᛁᚻᛏᚾᛖᛋ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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