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Sceóta

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m. A kind of trout, a shoate, shot [' Carew makes a distinction between the trout and shot. "The latter," he says, " is in a manner peculiar to Devon and Cornwall. In shape and colour he resembleth the Trowts: howbeit in biggnesse commeth farre behind him." The shoates with which is Tavy fraught. -- Browne's Brit. Past.,' E. D. S. Pub. E. Cornwall Gloss. Shote, a small kind of trout, W. Cornwall] :-- Hwilce fixas geféhst ðú ? . . . sceótan (tructos). Coll. Monast. Th. 23, 33. sceota
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Runic Inscription

Runic Inscription

ᛋᚳᛖᚩᛏᚪ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

Abbreviations Used

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Works & Authors

Past.
Alfred's Pastoral Care (Gregory's Cura Pastoralis)
S.
Sievers, E. (editor/scholar)
Th.
Thorpe, Benjamin (editor)
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