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Old English Dictionary Entry

Ge-sceatwyrpan

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1 ge-sceatwyrpan

p. te To betroth :-- Gesceatwyrpe despondi, Wrt. Voc. ii. 25, 72. [The O.H.Ger. scaz-wurf (manumissio seems to shew that the word is connected with sceatt not sceát, though the phrase in sceát álecgan (IV) desponsare might seem to point to sceát.] Cf. be-sceatwyrpan. ge-sceatwyrpan
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Runic Inscription

ᚷᛖ-ᛋᚳᛠᛏᚹᚣᚱᛈᚪᚾ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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Wright, T. & Wülcker, R. P., Anglo-Saxon and Old English Vocabularies
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