Má-cræftig

Old English Dictionary Entry

Má-cræftig

Old English Dictionary Entry

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1 má-cræftig

adj. Very (?) skilled or powerful :-- Hwanon cómen gé ceólum líðan mácræftige menn, Andr. Kmbl. 513; An. 257. Nǽfre ic sǽlidan sélran métte, mácræftigran, 943; An. 472. [Grimm in a note on the former passage suggests that in this compound may be a substantive from the same root and with the same meaning as mere.] ma-cræftig

Runic Inscription

ᛗᚪ-ᚳᚱᚫᚠᛏᛁᚷ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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