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Old English Dictionary Entry

Wár

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1 wár

sea-weed, waur (ware, woare, woore, ore : see also Jamieson's Dict. ware):-- Waar, uaar, uár alga, Txts. 39, 120. Wár. Wrt. Voc. ii. 6, 46: i. 285, 12. II. sand, strand. Cf. sondhyllas alga, Txts. 39, 125 :-- Streámas weorpaþ on stealc hleoþa stáne and sande, wáre (or under I ?) and wǽge, Exon. Th. 382, 8; Rä. 3, 8. Wára sablonum, strand sablo (mentis fundamina nequaquam areuosis sablonum glareis ultro citroque nutabundis subdiderat, Ald. 57), Hpt. Gl. 502, 76 : (printed wasa) 465, 8. Wárum sablonibus, 449, 30.
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Runic Inscription

Runic Inscription

ᚹᚪᚱ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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Abbreviations Used

Works & Authors

Exon.
Exeter Book
Th.
Thorpe, Benjamin (editor)
Voc.
Vocabulary
Wrt.
Wright, T. & Wülcker, R. P., Anglo-Saxon and Old English Vocabularies
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