Tó-dwínan

Old English Dictionary Entry

Tó-dwínan

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: Related words: dwínan, for-dwínan. to-dwinan

Definitions

1 tó-dwínan

p. -dwán To vanish away, to burst and vanish :-- Seó eádiga fǽmne hál fram him gewænte and eall sticmǽlum tóðwán (-dwán ? but both þwíneþ and dwíneþ occur. Lchdm. i. 84, 25 : 82, 2) se draca út of ðan carcerne the dragon burst all in pieces and vanished from the prison (the Latin has: Crux crevit in ore draconis et in duas partes eum divisit. Cf. the later English version: His (thedragon's) bodi tobarst omidheppes, Marh. 10, 22), Homl. Ass. 175, 200.

Runic Inscription

ᛏᚩ-ᛞᚹᛁᚾᚪᚾ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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