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Old English Dictionary Entry

Heolor(-er), helur(-or)

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1 heolor(-er), helur(-or)

f. A scale of a balance, a balance :-- Heolor, helor lanx, Txts. 73, 1177; trutina vel statera, 103, 2041. Laxhe. holor (Ep. Gl. laxhe. olor) l. lanx heolor, Corp. Gl. H. i. 16. Helur momentana (cf. lytle wǽga momentana vel statam, i. 38, 42), Wrt. Voc. ii. 59, 6. Heolere (heolora, Hpt. Gl. 447, 73) lance, An. Ox. 1757- Heolore, 2, 46. Gelícere heolre equa bilance, 4602. Heolore, 2, 354. Hiolore, Hpt. Gl. 512, 77. Twyfealdre heolra, Wrt. Voc. ii. 86, 3 : 12, 1 (the last five are glosses to Aid. 65, 13).
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Runic Inscription

Runic Inscription

ᚻᛇᛚᚩᚱ(-ᛖᚱ), ᚻᛖᛚᚢᚱ(-ᚩᚱ)

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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An.
Andreas (OE poem)
Voc.
Vocabulary
Wrt.
Wright, T. & Wülcker, R. P., Anglo-Saxon and Old English Vocabularies
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