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Old English Dictionary Entry

Un-dǽd

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1 un-dǽd

f. An ill deed, evil action, a crime, misdeed :-- On yfelan geðance and on undǽde, Wulfst. 165, 5. Ðá Helmstán ða undǽde gedyde ðæt hé Æðerédes belt forstæl when Helmstan committed the crime of stealing Æthered's belt, Chart. Th. 169, 19, 28. Yflo uerco l undédo mala opera, Jn. Skt. Lind. 3, 19. Scyldig and mánful mid undǽdum eall gesýmed sceleratis impius actis, Dóm. L. 58. Man deófol georne forbúge and his undǽda ealle oferhogie, Wulfst. 68, 12. [O. H. Ger. un-tát delictum, macula, fagitiosum: Ger. un-that.] un-dæd
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Runic Inscription

Runic Inscription

ᚢᚾ-ᛞǽᛞ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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Works & Authors

Jn.
Gospel of St. John (OE translation)
Th.
Thorpe, Benjamin (editor)
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