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Old English Dictionary Entry

Of-fillan

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1 of-fillan

to kill by felling, to kill by causing to fall, to destroy :-- Gif mon óðerne æt gemǽnum weorce offelle (-fealle, MSS. B. H.), L. Alf. pol. 13; Th. i. 70, 9. Hí woldon heó sylfe offyllan oððe ádrencan ruina perituri aut fluctibus absorbendi, Bd. 4, 13; S. 582, 33. Ðá hét se déma ðæt wíf weorpan on seáþ and ðǽr mid stánum offellan, Shrn. 89, 29. Cf. of-feallan. of-fillan
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Runic Inscription

Runic Inscription

ᚩᚠ-ᚠᛁᛚᛚᚪᚾ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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L.
Latin

Works & Authors

Bd.
Bede, Historia Ecclesiastica (OE translation)
S.
Sievers, E. (editor/scholar)
Shrn.
Shrine (collection of OE texts)
Th.
Thorpe, Benjamin (editor)
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