Old English Dictionary Entry

Grandleás

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1 grandleás

adj. GROUNDLESS, bottomless, boundless, immense, unbounded, interminable, endless; fundo carens, profundissimus, immensus :-- Se grundleás seáþ gǽsta giémeþ the bottomless pit holds the spirits, Exon. 30 b; Th. 94, 26; Cri. 1546: Bt. 9, 4; Fox 22, 32, Grundleás gítsung boundless greed, Bt. Met. Fox 7, 29; Met. 7, 15: Exon. 97 a; Th. 362, 34; Wal. 46: Cd. 22; Th. 25, 7; Gen. 390. Wurdon grundleáse Geátes frige ðæt him seó sorglufu slǽp binom Geat's loves were boundless so that anxious love took from him sleep, Exon. 100 a; Th. 378, 12; Deór. 15. grandleas

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Runic Inscription

ᚷᚱᚪᚾᛞᛚᛖᚪᛋ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

Abbreviations Used

Works & Authors

Bt.: Boethius, De Consolatione Philosophiæ (OE translation by Alfred)
Cd.: Codex Diplomaticus Saxonici (Kemble)
Cri.: Christ (OE poem by Cynewulf)
Exon.: Exeter Book
Fox: Fox, Samuel (Modern English translator of Boethius)
Gen.: Genesis (OE poem)
Met.: Metres of Boethius (OE poem)
Th.: Thorpe, Benjamin (editor)

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