Browse by Letter
Choose language
Old English Dictionary Entry

Ge-sweorcnes

Back to Letter G
Definitions

Definitions

1 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
Similar Words

Similar Words

Runic Inscription

Runic Inscription

ᚷᛖ-ᛋᚹᛇᚱᚳᚾᛖᛋ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

Abbreviations Used

Abbreviations Used

Common Abbreviations

L.
Latin

Works & Authors

Th.
Thorpe, Benjamin (editor)
View All Sources