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Old English Dictionary Entry

Wearg-ród

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1 wearg-ród

f. A gallows, gibbet :-- Waergrood furcimen, Txts. 65, 930. Uuergród, uaergród furca, 62, 409. Wearhród, Wrt. Voc. ii. 36, 68: 70, 24: 152, 1: eculeus vel calasta, i. 55, 52. We[rg]ród catasta, ii. 22, 23. Of ðam þorne on ða wærhróda; of dám ródun, Cod. Dip. Kmbl.
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Runic Inscription

Runic Inscription

ᚹᛠᚱᚷ-ᚱᚩᛞ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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Wright, T. & Wülcker, R. P., Anglo-Saxon and Old English Vocabularies
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