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Hand-gewinn

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1 hand-gewinn

n. Labour of the hands, struggle, strife, fighting :-- Ða munucas lifdon on hira ágenum handgewinne the monks lived by the labour of their own hands, Shrn. 37, 2. Be heora ágenum handgewinne lifigeaþ proprio labore manuum vivant, Bd. 4, 4; S. 571, 22: 4, 28; S. 606, note 2. Hefig hondgewinn a heavy struggle, Exon. 73 b; Th. 273, 34; Jul. 526. Hé sceal fore hǽðenra handgewinne gást onsendan he shall because of the heathens' warfare give up the ghost, Andr. Kmbl. 372; An.186. hand-gewinn
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Runic Inscription

Runic Inscription

ᚻᚪᚾᛞ-ᚷᛖᚹᛁᚾᚾ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

Abbreviations Used

Abbreviations Used

Works & Authors

An.
Andreas (OE poem)
Andr.
Andreas (OE poem)
Bd.
Bede, Historia Ecclesiastica (OE translation)
Exon.
Exeter Book
Jul.
Juliana (OE poem by Cynewulf)
S.
Sievers, E. (editor/scholar)
Shrn.
Shrine (collection of OE texts)
Th.
Thorpe, Benjamin (editor)
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