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Old English Dictionary Entry

Mete-leás

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adj. Without food, lacking food :-- On sumere tíde wæs micel menigu mid ðam Hǽlende on ánum wéstene meteleás (nec haberent, quod manducarent), Homl. Th. ii. 396, 1: Elen. Kmbl. 1220; El. 612: 1392; El. 698. Heó wunode seofon niht meteleás she remained seven days without food, Homl. Skt. 10, 283. [Icel. mat-lauss.] mete-leas
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Runic Inscription

Runic Inscription

ᛗᛖᛏᛖ-ᛚᛖᚪᛋ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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Works & Authors

El.
Elene (OE poem by Cynewulf)
Th.
Thorpe, Benjamin (editor)
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