On-orettan

Old English Dictionary Entry

On-orettan

Old English Dictionary Entry

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1 on-orettan

to perform with effort, to accomplish (a difficult undertaking):--Nó hé ofer Offan eorlscype fremede (he did not excel Offa), ac Offa geslóg cyneríca mǽst; nǽnig efeneald him eorlscipe máran onorette áne sweorde no one of equal age had done such heroic deeds, Exon. Th. 321, 4; Víd. 41. Iudiscféða án onorette uncúð gelád the tribe of Judah by itself performed the difficult and unknown course (the passage of the Red Sea), Cd. Th. 197, 25; Exod. 313. on-orettan

Runic Inscription

ᚩᚾ-ᚩᚱᛖᛏᛏᚪᚾ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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