Sealt-stán

Old English Dictionary Entry

Sealt-stán

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: es; Related words:

Definitions

1 sealt-stán

m. I. rock salt:--Ðis mæg tó eáhsalfe: genim geoluwne stán (ochre) and saltstán, Lchdm. i. 374, 14. II. a stone formed of salt, a pillar of salt:--Heó on sealtstánes sóna wurde anlícnesse ǽfre siððan, Cd. Th. 154, 31; Gen. 2564. Lothes wíf wearð áwende tó ánum sealtstáne (in statuam salis), Gen. 19, 26: Anglia vii., 48, 472. [O. H. Ger. salz-stein: Icel. salt-steinn. In English salt-stonesomewhat later means a rock in the sea, translating cautes, Wrt. Voc. i. 256, col. 1.] sealt-stan

Runic Inscription

ᛋᛠᛚᛏ-ᛋᛏᚪᚾ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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