Heáfod-sién

Old English Dictionary Entry

Heáfod-sién

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: -sýn, e; Related words:

Definitions

1 heáfod-sién

f. The eye :-- Ðǽr him hrefn nimeþ heáfodsýne there [on the gallows] shall the raven take from him his eye, Exon. 87 b; Th. 329, 19; Vy. 36. Heáfodsiéna, Cd. 114; Th. 150, 11; Gen. 2490. heafod-sien

Runic Inscription

ᚻᛖᚪᚠᚩᛞ-ᛋᛁᛖᚾ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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