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Old English Dictionary Entry

Ge-span[n]

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1 ge-span[n]

Add: I. a yoke :-- Hié nán gespann ðæs flǽslican gesinscipes ne gebiégð eos nequaquam jugum copulae carnalis inclinat, Past. 401, 3. II. a clasp, buckle :-- Gespan, gespon murica, aureum in tunica, Txts. 76, 624 : mauria de auro facta in tonica, 113, 78 : Wrt. Voc. ii. 55, 78. [O.H.Ger. ge-spann spinter, murica, minor murenula.] ge-spann
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Runic Inscription

Runic Inscription

ᚷᛖ-ᛋᛈᚪᚾ[ᚾ]

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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Works & Authors

Past.
Alfred's Pastoral Care (Gregory's Cura Pastoralis)
Voc.
Vocabulary
Wrt.
Wright, T. & Wülcker, R. P., Anglo-Saxon and Old English Vocabularies
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