Un-ceás

Old English Dictionary Entry

Un-ceás

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: -ceást, es ( Related words:

Definitions

1 un-ceás

but ceás and ceást are both fem.) Absence of quarrel, inhostility :-- Se ðe þeóf slihð hé mót áðe gecýðan ðæt hé hine fleóndne for þeóf slóge, and ðæs deádan mǽgas him swerian unceáses (-ceástes, MS. H.) áð the kinsmen of the dead man shall swear to the slayer an oath that they will have no quarrel with him, L. M. 35; Th. i. 124, 8. Cf. the similar phrase in reference to the seizing of a thief: Ða mǽgas him (the captor) swerian áðas unfǽhða, 28; Th. i. 120, 6. un-ceas

Runic Inscription

ᚢᚾ-ᚳᛖᚪᛋ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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