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Níd-riht

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1 níd-riht

n. (I. a duty that must be performed, service, office; officium, debitum :-- Nédreht debitum, Rtl. 89, 26. God-cund þeówdóm is gesett on cyriclícum þénungum æfter canoneclícan gewunan tó niédrihte eallum gehádedum mannum. On ǽlcne tíman man sceal God herian ... Ac ðeáhhwæðere sindon gesette tíman synderlíce tó ðam ánum, ðæt gif hwá for bisgan oftor ne mǽge, ðæt hé húru ðæt niédriht dæghwamlíce gefylle, Btwk. 194, 3-8. II. a due, what must be paid :-- Eallum ǽhtemannum gebyreþ midwintres feorm and Eástorfeorm ... tóeácan heora nýdrihte, L. R. S. 9 ; Th. i. 438, 2.
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Runic Inscription

ᚾᛁᛞ-ᚱᛁᚻᛏ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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R.
Riddles (Exeter Book)
S.
Sievers, E. (editor/scholar)
Th.
Thorpe, Benjamin (editor)
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