Hócor-wyrde

Old English Dictionary Entry

Hócor-wyrde

Old English Dictionary Entry

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1 hócor-wyrde

adj. Using scornful, mocking language :-- Hér sind on earde hócorwyrde ǽghwǽr there are in the land here everywhere men of scornful speech, Swt. A. S. Rdr. 109, 156. [Cf. Laym. Sexisce men mine unhæle me atwiten mid heore hokerworden.] hocor-wyrde

Runic Inscription

ᚻᚩᚳᚩᚱ-ᚹᚣᚱᛞᛖ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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