Sweartness

Old English Dictionary Entry

Sweartness

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: e; Related words:

Definitions

1 sweartness

f. I. blackness :-- Sweartnysse nigredine, Hpt. Gl. 514, 50. II. a black material :-- Sweartnesse atramentum, Wrt. Voc. ii. 84, 72: 5, 31. sweartness

Runic Inscription

ᛋᚹᛠᚱᛏᚾᛖᛋᛋ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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