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Hlýda

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m. The month noisy with wind and storm, March :-- Hagolscúrum færþ geond middangeard Martius réðe Hlýda with hail-showers passes through the earth rude March [which we call] Hlyda, Menol. Fox 74; Men. 37. Mónaþ Martius ðe menn hátaþ hlýda, Lchdm. iii. 152. 30. Ðæs mónþes ðe wé hátaþ Martius ðone gé hátaþ Hlýda, Homl. Th. i. 100, 5. On Martio ðæt is on hlýdan mónþe, Lchdm. iii. 152, 9; 250, 5. Se ǽresta frigedæg ðe man sceal fæsten is on hlýdan the first Friday to fast on is in March, 228, 21. [Lide as a name for March is given in the E. D. S. East Cornwall Glossary.] hlyda
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Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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Fox
Fox, Samuel (Modern English translator of Boethius)
S.
Sievers, E. (editor/scholar)
Th.
Thorpe, Benjamin (editor)
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