Hungor-biten

Old English Dictionary Entry

Hungor-biten

Old English Dictionary Entry

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1 hungor-biten

adj. Hunger-bitten, suffering from hunger :-- Ac ðes folces ðe be Hungire fór fela þúsenda ðǽr and be wæge earmlíce forfóran and fela hreówlíce and hungerbitene ongeán winter hám tugon but of the people that went by Hungary many thousands perished miserably there and by the way, and many came home towards winter in pitiful plight and suffering from hunger, Chr. 1096; Erl. 233, 22. hungor-biten

Runic Inscription

ᚻᚢᛝᚩᚱ-ᛒᛁᛏᛖᚾ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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