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Old English Dictionary Entry

Líf-leást

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1 líf-leást

f. Loss of life, death :-- On ǽlcum ðara daga gif man ǽnige ǽddran geopenaþ on ðara tíde ðæt hit biþ lífleást oððe langsum sár on each of those days, if a vein be opened at that hour, it is death or long disease, Lchdm. iii. 152, 5. Bendas oððe dyntas hwílum líflǽsta bonds or blows, at times death, L. Pen. 3; Th. ii. 278, 27. lif-least
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Runic Inscription

Runic Inscription

ᛚᛁᚠ-ᛚᛖᚪᛋᛏ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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Thorpe, Benjamin (editor)
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