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Húðe

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, e; f. Prey, spoil, booty :-- Húðe hremig exulting in spoil, Elen. Kmbl. 297; El. 149: Beo. Th. 248; B. 124. Cómon tó Moyse mid micelre húðe adduxerunt prædam ad Moysen, Num. 31, 12. Se Chaldéa cining com ðá tó his earde mid ðære húðe, Ælfc. T. Grn. 8, 23: Cd. 174; Th. 220, 2; Dan. 65. Habbaþ nú ða húðe and ðæt orf eów gemǽne prædam vero et omnia animantia diripiens vobis, Jos. 8, 2: Cd. 97; Th. 127, 19; Gen. 2113: 98; Th. 129, 24; Gen. 2149. Húða mǽste greatest of spoils, Exon. 16 a; Th. 35, 35; Cri. 568. [Cf. Goth. hunths captivity: O. H. Ger. heri-hunda præda.]
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Runic Inscription

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Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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German
Goth.
Gothic
O. H. Ger.
Old High German

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Beo.
Beowulf
Cd.
Codex Diplomaticus Saxonici (Kemble)
Cri.
Christ (OE poem by Cynewulf)
El.
Elene (OE poem by Cynewulf)
Exon.
Exeter Book
Gen.
Genesis (OE poem)
Th.
Thorpe, Benjamin (editor)
Ælfc.
Ælfric
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