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Old English Dictionary Entry

On-spreccan

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1 on-spreccan

to enliven, to make sprack(?) [Sprack lively, active, Halliw. Dict.: Icel. sprækr active.]:--Ðá wæs wæstnum áweaht world onspreaht (-spreht, MS.), Exon. Th. 353, 8; Reim. 9. [Cf.(?) ich sprechi in ham sprekes of lustes swa luðere ðæt ha forberneþ, Marh. 15, 21.] on-spreccan
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Runic Inscription

Runic Inscription

ᚩᚾ-ᛋᛈᚱᛖᚳᚳᚪᚾ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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Icel.
Icelandic

Works & Authors

Exon.
Exeter Book
Th.
Thorpe, Benjamin (editor)
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