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Tó-beátan

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1 tó-beátan

p. -beót To beat to pieces, destroy by beating :-- Hig gebundon ðone bysceop be ðám fótum on sumne fearr and ðone gegremedon, ðæt hé hleóp on unsméðe eorðan and ðam bysceope ðæt heáfod tóbeót, Shrn. 152, 2. Com him swilc wind ongeán, swilce nán mann ǽr ne gemunde, and ða scipo ealle tóbeót, Chr. 1009; Erl. 142, 5. Scipia hét ǽlcne hiéwestán tóbeátan omni murali lapide inpiilverem comminuto, Ors. 4, 13; Swt. 212, 10. [Ure men hí tobetet they knock our men about, Laym. 3308. Me tobeot his cheoken, A. R. 106, 24. Euer euch man me tobeteþ, and hwanne heo habbeþ me ofslaȝe, O. and N. 1610.] to-beatan
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Runic Inscription

Runic Inscription

ᛏᚩ-ᛒᛖᚪᛏᚪᚾ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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Works & Authors

Chr.
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
Erl.
Earle, J. (editor)
Ors.
Orosius, Historiarum (OE translation by Alfred)
R.
Riddles (Exeter Book)
Shrn.
Shrine (collection of OE texts)
Swt.
Sweet's Anglo-Saxon Reader
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