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Old English Dictionary Entry

Hreów-lic

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1 hreów-lic

Add: I. exciting pity, lamentable:--Him tó hreówlic þúhte ꝥ man swá geongne man cwealde . . . swá hé geáxod hæfde þe man gehwǽr dyde, Ll. Th. i. 240, 25. II. suffering distress, hapless, miserable:--Hreówlice calamitosum (uulgus), An. Ox. 4868. [N. E. D. ruly.] hreow-lic
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Runic Inscription

Runic Inscription

ᚻᚱᛖᚩᚹ-ᛚᛁᚳ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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Works & Authors

An.
Andreas (OE poem)
Ll.
Laws of the Anglo-Saxons
Th.
Thorpe, Benjamin (editor)
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