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Old English Dictionary Entry

Tiberness

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f. Sacrifice, destruction, immolation:--Rǽde on his bócum hwelce tibernessa ǽgðer ge on monslihtum ge on hungre ge on scipgebroce let him read in his books what sacrifices of life there were by slaughter, famine, and shipwreck (the Latin, which is not closely followed, has qui caedem didicerunt), Ors. 1, 11; Swt. 50, 18. tiberness
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Runic Inscription

Runic Inscription

ᛏᛁᛒᛖᚱᚾᛖᛋᛋ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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Works & Authors

Ors.
Orosius, Historiarum (OE translation by Alfred)
Swt.
Sweet's Anglo-Saxon Reader
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