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Watel

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m. A wattle, interwoven twigs :-- Watul teges, Ælfc. Gr. 9, 26: Zup. 52, 13. Hé mycelne aad gesomnode on beámum and on ræftrum and on wágum and on watelum and on ðacum advexit plurimam congeriem trabium. tignorum, parietum, virgeorum, et tecti fenei, Bd. 3, 16; S. 542, 23. Ðá ástigon hig uppan ðæne hróf þurh ða watelas (per tegulas) and hine mid ðam bedde ásendon, Lk. Skt. 5, 19. [(subst. and vb.) in Baker's Northants Gloss. : wattle to tile, Halliwell's Dict. : watteled, Piers P. 19, 323.] watel
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Runic Inscription

Runic Inscription

ᚹᚪᛏᛖᛚ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

Abbreviations Used

Abbreviations Used

Works & Authors

Bd.
Bede, Historia Ecclesiastica (OE translation)
Gr.
Ælfric's Grammar
Lk.
Gospel of St. Luke (OE translation)
S.
Sievers, E. (editor/scholar)
Ælfc.
Ælfric
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