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Gýmeleás

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1 gýmeleás

adj. Careless, negligent, uncared for, wandering, stray; negligens :-- Gýmeleás feoh [giémeleás fioh] stray cattle, L. Alf. 42; Th. i. 54, 9: Ps. Th. 70, 10. Ða gímeleasan men ðe heora líf adrugon on ealre ídelnisse careless men who passed their life in all frivolity, Swt. A. S. Rdr. 56, 11. Gýmeleáse heedless, Exon. 73 a; Th. 271, 33; Jul. 491: Blickl. Homl. 55, 30. gymeleas
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Runic Inscription

Runic Inscription

ᚷᚣᛗᛖᛚᛖᚪᛋ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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Common Abbreviations

L.
Latin

Works & Authors

Exon.
Exeter Book
Jul.
Juliana (OE poem by Cynewulf)
Ps.
Psalms (OE)
S.
Sievers, E. (editor/scholar)
Swt.
Sweet's Anglo-Saxon Reader
Th.
Thorpe, Benjamin (editor)
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