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Old English Dictionary Entry

Under-creópan

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1 under-creópan

to enter surreptitiously; surrepere :-- Ða wæs ðæs wítegan cnapa mid gítsunge undercropen avarice crept into the heart of the prophet's servant, Homl. Th. i. 400, 16. Ðæt ne feónd ús undercreópe (but the Latin is subripiat), Hymn. Surt. 12, 28. under-creopan
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Runic Inscription

Runic Inscription

ᚢᚾᛞᛖᚱ-ᚳᚱᛖᚩᛈᚪᚾ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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Thorpe, Benjamin (editor)
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