Land-mearc

Old English Dictionary Entry

Land-mearc

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: e; Related words:

Definitions

1 land-mearc

f. Boundary of an estate or of a country :-- Seó landmearce líþ of Terstán upp be Hohtúninga mearce, Cod. Dip. Kmbl. iii. 189, 5. Londmearce neáh near to the land's boundary, Exon. 75 a; Th. 280, 27; Jul. 635. [O. H. Ger. lant-marcha funiculum.] Cf.land-gemǽre, -gemirce. land-mearc

Runic Inscription

ᛚᚪᚾᛞ-ᛗᛠᚱᚳ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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