Hundredes ealdor

Old English Dictionary Entry

Hundredes ealdor

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1 hundredes ealdor

m. I. a centurion :-- Ðá geneáhlǽhte hym án hundredes ealdor accessit ad eum Centurio, Mt. Kmbl. 8, 5. II. the presiding officer of the court of the hundred :-- Gif se hundrodes ealdor ðæt geáscoþ, L. Edg. S. 10; Th. i. 276, 8. Cýðan hit ðæs túnes men ðam hundredes ealdre, 8; Th. i. 274, 28. hundredes ealdor

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ᚻᚢᚾᛞᚱᛖᛞᛖᛋ ᛠᛚᛞᚩᚱ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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