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Old English Dictionary Entry

Hún-þyrel

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1 hún-þyrel

n. The hole in the mast-head through which the halyard went :-- Húnþyrlu carchesia, Wrt. Voc. 63, 49. [Icel. húnn a knob at the end of a staff, at the top of a mast; hún-bora the hole in the mast-head through which the halyard went.] hun-þyrel
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Runic Inscription

Runic Inscription

ᚻᚢᚾ-ᚦᚣᚱᛖᛚ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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Wrt.
Wright, T. & Wülcker, R. P., Anglo-Saxon and Old English Vocabularies
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