Ge-sweorcnes

Old English Dictionary Entry

Ge-sweorcnes

Old English Dictionary Entry

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

Definitions

1 ge-sweorcnes

f. Cloudiness, gloom, horror, affliction; obscūrĭtus, horror, afflictio :-- Ne ðǽr nǽfre biþ biternes, ne gesweorcnesse stów geméted nor is bitterness ever there, nor a place found for gloom,L. E. I. prm; Th. ii. 400, 9. ge-sweorcnes

Runic Inscription

ᚷᛖ-ᛋᚹᛇᚱᚳᚾᛖᛋ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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