Scilcen

Old English Dictionary Entry

Scilcen

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: The word has not necessarily a bad meaning. With the passage given compare the description of the same incident in Gr. D. :-- Hé sænde .vii. nacode mǽdenu (puellas), 119, 11 Related words:

Definitions

1 scilcen

:-- Scylcen, fǽmne, meówle iuuencula, i. uirguncula, An. Ox. 2112. [Þer com o schelchene gon þat wes myd Kayphas (uenit una ex ancillis summi sacerdotis, Mk. 14, 66), Misc. 45, 279.] scilcen

Runic Inscription

ᛋᚳᛁᛚᚳᛖᚾ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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