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Old English Dictionary Entry

Un-týdre

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1 un-týdre

m. An evil growth, evil progeny, a monstrous birth :-- Ðanon untýdras ealle onwócon, eotenas and ylfe and orcneas, swylce gigantas (cf. Milton: Where nature breeds, Perverse, all monstrous, all prodigious things, Abominable, P. L. Bk. 2), Beo. Th. 222; B. 111. un-tydre
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Runic Inscription

Runic Inscription

ᚢᚾ-ᛏᚣᛞᚱᛖ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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Beo.
Beowulf
Th.
Thorpe, Benjamin (editor)
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