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Old English Dictionary Entry

Ge-spon

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1 ge-spon

n. An enticing, persuasion, artifice; illectatio, persuasio, seductio :-- Deófles gespon the devil's artifice, Cd. 33; Th. 45, 2; Gen. 720.
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Runic Inscription

Runic Inscription

ᚷᛖ-ᛋᛈᚩᚾ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

Abbreviations Used

Abbreviations Used

Works & Authors

Cd.
Codex Diplomaticus Saxonici (Kemble)
Gen.
Genesis (OE poem)
Th.
Thorpe, Benjamin (editor)
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