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Old English Dictionary Entry

Ham-scyld

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1 ham-scyld

, L. Eth. 32; Th. i. 12, 1, where see note. Leo in his work on Anglo-Saxon Names quotes a passage from Richthofen in which skeld occurs in the sense of fence; so that the crime referred to in the passage would be the breaking through the fence which surrounded the ham.
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Runic Inscription

Runic Inscription

ᚻᚪᛗ-ᛋᚳᚣᛚᛞ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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Thorpe, Benjamin (editor)
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