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Old English Dictionary Entry

Teám-byrst

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1 teám-byrst

m. The failure to produce a geteáma in a suit. the stolen slave about whom the case had arisen) tó Æðelstáne; ða cende hé tém and lét ðone forberstan (he admitted having sold the slave to Wulfstan, but would not declare from whom he had obtained it) ... Ðá bæd Byrhferhð ealdor-mann Æðelstán his wer for ðam témbyrste, Chart. Th. 207, 4. team-byrst
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Runic Inscription

Runic Inscription

ᛏᛖᚪᛗ-ᛒᚣᚱᛋᛏ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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Thorpe, Benjamin (editor)
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