Metod-gesceaft

Old English Dictionary Entry

Metod-gesceaft

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: e; Related words: next word. metod-gesceaft

Definitions

1 metod-gesceaft

f. Decree of fate, death :-- Sum sceal seonobennum seóc sár cwánian, murnan meotudgesceaft (approaching death), Exon. 87 b; Th. 328, 19; Vy. 20. [O. Sax. hie iro mundoda wiðer metodigiskeftie (the death of her son).]

Runic Inscription

ᛗᛖᛏᚩᛞ-ᚷᛖᛋᚳᛠᚠᛏ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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