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Old English Dictionary Entry

Læt-byrd

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1 læt-byrd

f. A lateor slow birth :-- Se wífman se hire cild áfédan ne mæg gange tó gewitenes mannes birgenne ... and cweþe ðás word ðis mé tó bóte ðære láþan lætbyrde let the woman who cannot nourish her [unborn] child go to the grave of a dead man ... and say these words: 'May this help me with the troublesome late birth,' Lchdm. iii. 66, 21. læt-byrd
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Runic Inscription

Runic Inscription

ᛚᚫᛏ-ᛒᚣᚱᛞ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc