Swét-wyrde

Old English Dictionary Entry

Swét-wyrde

Old English Dictionary Entry

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1 swét-wyrde

adj. Agreeable of speech, bland:--Blandis sermonibus, lenis verbis líþum vel swétwyrdum, Wrt. Voc. ii. 127, 4. Balbus, qui vult loqui et non potest wlips vel swétwyrda (blandus seems to have been read?), 125, 11. swet-wyrde

Runic Inscription

ᛋᚹᛖᛏ-ᚹᚣᚱᛞᛖ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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