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Old English Dictionary Entry

On-willan

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1 on-willan

to cause to boil; fig. to cause passion or emotion to be violent :-- Ðá wæs eft swá ǽr ealdfeónda níþ onwylleð then again as before hot waxed the hate of former foes, Exon. Th. 125, 30; Gú. 362.
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Runic Inscription

Runic Inscription

ᚩᚾ-ᚹᛁᛚᛚᚪᚾ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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Abbreviations Used

Works & Authors

Exon.
Exeter Book
Gú.
Guthlac (OE poem)
Th.
Thorpe, Benjamin (editor)
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