Ge-wald

Old English Dictionary Entry

Ge-wald

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: es; Related words: ge-weald. ge-wald

Definitions

1 ge-wald

m. n. Power, mastery, sway :-- Ða Denescan áhton wæl-stówe gewald the Danes had the mastery of the battle-place, Chr. 833; Th. 116, 7, col. 1: Cd. 214; Th. 268, 15; Sat. 55.

Runic Inscription

ᚷᛖ-ᚹᚪᛚᛞ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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