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Old English Dictionary Entry

Grécas

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1 Grécas

gen. a; dat. um; pl. m. The Greeks; Græci :-- Ðá gefélde he his líchoman healfne dǽl mid ða ádle geslægene beón, ðe Grécas nemnaþ paralysis, we cweðaþ lyft-ádl then fell he that the half of his body was struck with the illness which the Greeks call paralysis, we call lift-ill, Bd. 4, 31; S. 610, 16. Of Grécum from the Greek, Ors. 5, 11; Bos. 109, 30. Ðá fóron hí on Greácas then they went against the Greeks, Ors. 5, 12; Bos. 110, 38. Greáca land land of the Greeks, 5, 11; Bos. 109, 28. grecas
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Runic Inscription

Runic Inscription

ᚷᚱᛖᚳᚪᛋ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

Abbreviations Used

Abbreviations Used

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Bd.
Bede, Historia Ecclesiastica (OE translation)
Ors.
Orosius, Historiarum (OE translation by Alfred)
S.
Sievers, E. (editor/scholar)
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