Un-swice

Old English Dictionary Entry

Un-swice

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: es; Related words:

Definitions

1 un-swice

m. (or -swic, es; n.?) Good faith, absence of deceit or treachery :-- Ðá gyrnde hé griðes and gísla, ðet hé móste unswican intó gemóte cuman and út of gemóte he required safeconduct and hostages, that he might come to the meeting and go from it without treachery, Chr. 1048; Erl. 180, 7. [Cf. Icel. verða fyrir svikum to be exposed to treachery.] un-swice

Runic Inscription

ᚢᚾ-ᛋᚹᛁᚳᛖ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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