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Salwian

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1 salwian

to make dark, to blacken :-- Heó (the dove) nolde ǽfre under salwed bord (in the ark, which was dark-coloured from the pitch that had been smeared over it) syððan ætýwan, Cd. Th. 89, 15; Gen. 1481. [Cf. O. H. Ger. gi-salwian decolorare; salwet obscuratum; salawi fuscatio.
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Runic Inscription

Runic Inscription

ᛋᚪᛚᚹᛁᚪᚾ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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Ger.
German
O. H. Ger.
Old High German

Works & Authors

Cd.
Codex Diplomaticus Saxonici (Kemble)
Gen.
Genesis (OE poem)
Th.
Thorpe, Benjamin (editor)
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