Scilfe

Old English Dictionary Entry

Scilfe

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: an; Related words:

Definitions

1 scilfe

f. A shelf, ledge, floor:?-Gescype scylfan on scipes bósme (cf. With lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make the ark, Gen. 6, 16), Cd. Th. 79, 4; Gen. 1306. [Cf. Icel. Hlið-skjálf; f. Odin?s seat whence he looked out on all the world.] scilfe

Runic Inscription

ᛋᚳᛁᛚᚠᛖ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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