Slíp-heard

Old English Dictionary Entry

Slíp-heard

Old English Dictionary Entry

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1 slíp-heard

adj. Excessively hard. I. of living things, very fierce, savage :-- Slíþherde deór (the boar and the bear), Exon. Th. 344, 22 ; Gn. Ex. 177. II. of inanimate things, very hard, cruel :-- Mé habbaþ hringa gespong slíþhearda sál síþes ámyrred the cruel chain has hindered me from going, Cd. Th. 24, 15 ; Gen. 378. slip-heard

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ᛋᛚᛁᛈ-ᚻᛠᚱᛞ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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