Ge-scapennys

Old English Dictionary Entry

Ge-scapennys

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: -nyss, e; Related words: ge-sceapennys. ge-scapennys

Definitions

1 ge-scapennys

f. A creation, creating, formation; creātio, figmentum :-- Se emnihtes dæg is se feórþa dæg ðysse wornlde gescapennysse the day of the equinox is the fourth day of the creation of this world, Bd. de nat. rerum; Wrt. popl. science 4, 14, 16; Lchdm. iii. 238, 18, 20. He sylf oncneów hiwunga oððe gescapennysse úre ipse cognōvit figmentum nostrum, Ps. Lamb. 102, 14.

Runic Inscription

ᚷᛖ-ᛋᚳᚪᛈᛖᚾᚾᚣᛋ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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