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Ge-swinc

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1 ge-swinc

n. [swinc labour, trouble] Labour, exercise, inconvenience, fatigue, trouble, affliction, tribulation, torment, temptation, banishment; lăbor, exercĭtātio, incommŏdum, afflictio, trībŭlātio, tentātio, exsĭlium :-- Geswinc lăbor, Ælfc Gr. 9, 21; Som. 10, 27. Com ðis geswinc ofer us vēnit sŭper nos ista trībŭlātio, Gen. 42, 21: Ps. Surt. 21, 12. On tíd geswinces in tempŏre trībŭlātiōnis, 36, 39: 17, 19. Ðú eall þing birest búton geswince thou bearest all things without labour, Bt. Met. Fox 20, 553; Met. 20, 277: Chr. 1016; Erl. 155, 3. On geswince in exercĭtātiōne, Ps. Spl. 54, 2. Sum heard geswinc habban sceoldon they must have some hard torment, Cd. 17; Th. 20, 30; Gen. 317: Chr. 1085; Erl. 218, 10. Eallra geswinca of all labours, Bt. Met. Fox 21, 20; Met. 21, 10: 21, 28; Met. 21, 14. On mínum geswincum in tentātiōnĭbus meis, Lk. Bos. 22, 28: Homl. Th. ii. 82, 23. Gé eodon on hyra geswinc in lălōres eōrum introistis, Jn. Bos. 4, 38. Geswinc exsĭlium, Cot. 73. ge-swinc
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Runic Inscription

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ᚷᛖ-ᛋᚹᛁᚾᚳ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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Works & Authors

Bt.
Boethius, De Consolatione Philosophiæ (OE translation by Alfred)
Cd.
Codex Diplomaticus Saxonici (Kemble)
Chr.
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
Cot.
Cottonian Manuscripts
Erl.
Earle, J. (editor)
Fox
Fox, Samuel (Modern English translator of Boethius)
Gen.
Genesis (OE poem)
Gr.
Ælfric's Grammar
Jn.
Gospel of St. John (OE translation)
Lk.
Gospel of St. Luke (OE translation)
Met.
Metres of Boethius (OE poem)
Ps.
Psalms (OE)
Som.
Somner's Dictionarium Saxonico-Latino-Anglicum
Th.
Thorpe, Benjamin (editor)
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