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Sweartian

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1 sweartian

p. ode To make or to become black :-- Ðanne sweartigaþ (sweratiged, MS.) hý (the teeth) and feallaþ (-eð, MS. ), Lchdm. iii. 104, 17. Hé sweartade (but see spearcian), Cd. Th. 269, 24; Sat. 78. Ðá árás se wind, and ða wolcnu sweartodon, Homl. Skt. i. 18, 151. Gesweartode denigratos, Hpt. Gl. 514, 32. [ꝥ te hude snawhwit swartete as hit snarchte, Marh. 18, 14. O. H. Ger. swarzen to become black: Icel. svarta to dye black.]
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Runic Inscription

ᛋᚹᛠᚱᛏᛁᚪᚾ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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Works & Authors

Cd.
Codex Diplomaticus Saxonici (Kemble)
Th.
Thorpe, Benjamin (editor)
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