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Old English Dictionary Entry

Hasu

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1 hasu

adj. Grey, ash-coloured, tawny; cinereus, fulvo-cinereus :-- Hé of earce forlét haswe culufran he let out of the ark a grey dove, Cd. 72; Th. 87, 20; Gen. 1451. Hwílum ic onhyrge ðone haswan earn sometimes I imitate the grey eagle, Exon. 106 b; Th. 406, 21; Rä. 25, 4. Se haswa fugel, 57 b; Th. 206, 4; Ph. 121. Récas stígaþ haswe ofer hrófum grey smoke mounts o'er the roofs, 101 a; Th. 381, 6; Rä. 2, 7. [Icel. höss grey (applied to the wolf and eagle as above): cf. Gen. and Ex. haswed, Hasu wol ursprünglich wolfgrau, und adlergrau, jene gemischte Farbe von goldgelb und grau: bald überwiegt der Gedanke an das Goldgelbe (vgl. blond), bald das Grau der Mischung.'] hasu
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Runic Inscription

Runic Inscription

ᚻᚪᛋᚢ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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Abbreviations Used

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Cd.
Codex Diplomaticus Saxonici (Kemble)
Exon.
Exeter Book
Gen.
Genesis (OE poem)
Th.
Thorpe, Benjamin (editor)
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