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Sciccels

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m. A cloak, mantle :-- Scicilse melote, mantile, veste, Hpt. Gl. 440, 72. Hé hine unscrídde ðam healfan scicelse ðe hé on hæfde, Th. Ap. 12, 22. Hé wæs mid horhgum scicelse bewǽfed, 13, 26. Hí scrýddon hyne mid weolcenreádum scyccelse (clamys), Mt. Kmbl. 27, 28, 31. Geteáh his seax and genam his sciccels ðe hé him on hæfde, tósnáð hine on twá, Blickl. Homl. 215, 6. Ðá tócearf hé his scyccel ontwá, and hyne gesealde healfne ðam þearfendum men, Shrn. 146, 36. [Cf. Icel. skikkja a cloak.]
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Runic Inscription

Runic Inscription

ᛋᚳᛁᚳᚳᛖᛚᛋ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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Icelandic

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Mt.
Gospel of St. Matthew (OE translation)
Shrn.
Shrine (collection of OE texts)
Th.
Thorpe, Benjamin (editor)
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