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Háw

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1 háw

a look out, or prospect'; Middendorff compares the word with -hau in German place-names, and takes it to mean a clearing, a place where trees are cut down (cf. heáwan). But perhaps in the one passage where the word occurs hlawe should be read :-- Haec sunt supradictarum uocabula terrarum, aet Uuineshauue (cf. scuccanhlau, 196, 1), C. D. i. 195, 30. haw
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Runic Inscription

Runic Inscription

ᚻᚪᚹ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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