Meter-wyrhta

Old English Dictionary Entry

Meter-wyrhta

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: an; Related words:

Definitions

1 meter-wyrhta

m. A verse-maker, poet :-- Mederwyrhta metricus, Wrt. Voc. ii. 114, 7. Meterwyrhta, 55, 64. [Cf. O. H. Ger. meter-wurcha poetica musa.] meter-wyrhta

Runic Inscription

ᛗᛖᛏᛖᚱ-ᚹᚣᚱᚻᛏᚪ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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