Hnifol

Old English Dictionary Entry

Hnifol

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: es; Related words:

Definitions

1 hnifol

m. The forehead :-- Hnifol frons, Wrt. Voc. 282, 46. Smire mid ða þunwangan and ðone hnifol and ufan ðæt heáfod smear therewith the temples and the forehead and the top of the head, L. M. 3, 1; Lchdm. ii. 306, 6. hnifol

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ᚻᚾᛁᚠᚩᛚ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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