Iór

Old English Dictionary Entry

Iór

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: es ; Related words:

Definitions

1 iór

m. The name of the rune RUNE ; also of a fish, perhaps the eel :-- RUNE byþ eáfixa [sum] and ðeáh á brúceþ fódres on faldan eel is a river-fish, and yet ever eats food on the ground, Runic pm. 28; Kmbl. 345. 4. See Zacher's Das Gothische Alphabet, p. 26; Taylor's Greeks and Goths, pp. 97-8. ior

Runic Inscription

ᛁᚩᚱ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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