Ofer-wyrcan

Old English Dictionary Entry

Ofer-wyrcan

Old English Dictionary Entry

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1 ofer-wyrcan

to cover by working, to work a covering over something, to overlay :-- Hé hit him eft hám bebeád on ánum brede áwriten and siððan hit áwriten wæs hé hit oferworhte mid weaxe qui omnia civibus suis per tabellas scriptas, et post cera superlitas, enunciabat, Ors. 4, 5; Swt. 168, 14. Nǽfre nǽnig man ða lǽstas sylfe ufan oferwyrcean ne mihte, ne mid golde, ne mid seolfre, Blickl. Homl. 125, 35. Hús (the temple) oferworht mid golde and mid hwítan seolfre, Ælfc. T. Grn. 7, 35: Blickl. Homl. 125, 25. Hé wæs bebyrged and oferworht syððan (a tomb was erected), Homl. Skt. i. 21, 19. ofer-wyrcan

Runic Inscription

ᚩᚠᛖᚱ-ᚹᚣᚱᚳᚪᚾ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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