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Old English Dictionary Entry

Líf-bysig

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1 líf-bysig

adj. Busy about saving life, struggling for life, anxious about life :-- Ðæt hé for mundgripe mínum scolde licgean lífbysig bútan his líce swice that for my handgrip he should lie struggling for life, unless his body should escape, Beo. Th. 1936; B. 966. lif-bysig
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Runic Inscription

Runic Inscription

ᛚᛁᚠ-ᛒᚣᛋᛁᚷ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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Works & Authors

Beo.
Beowulf
Th.
Thorpe, Benjamin (editor)
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