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Un-gewitness

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1 un-gewitness

f. False knowledge (?), folly (?) :-- Þám fét hé wiðbrægd þý lǽs hit gelumpe ꝥ hwæt unrihtes hine gehrine of his ágenum geþóhte and ungewitnesse, and hé þonne sylfa æfter þon eall geeóde in mycele forspildnysse (the original Latin, which has been misunderstood, is: Retraxit pedem; ne si quid de scientia ejus (i.e. mundi), ipse postmodum in immane praecipitium totus iret), Gr. D. 95, 22.
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ᚢᚾ-ᚷᛖᚹᛁᛏᚾᛖᛋᛋ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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