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Old English Dictionary Entry

Un-cwisse

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1 un-cwisse

adj. Speechless :-- Ðære tungan onstyrenesse beswicade (linguae motu caruit). Ðá wǽron ðrý dagas and ðreó niht fulle ðæt heó wæs uncwisse, Bd. 4, 9; S. 577, 18. un-cwisse
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Runic Inscription

Runic Inscription

ᚢᚾ-ᚳᚹᛁᛋᛋᛖ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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Works & Authors

Bd.
Bede, Historia Ecclesiastica (OE translation)
S.
Sievers, E. (editor/scholar)
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