Lyft-helm

Old English Dictionary Entry

Lyft-helm

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: es; Related words:

Definitions

1 lyft-helm

m. The air, atmosphere, cloud :-- Lyfthelm and laguflód air [or cloud?] and water, Menol. Fox 553; Gn. C. 46. Wǽron land heora lyfthelme beþeaht their lands were covered with cloud, Cd. 145; Th. 181, 13; Exod. 60. lyft-helm

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ᛚᚣᚠᛏ-ᚻᛖᛚᛗ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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