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Old English Dictionary Entry

Wearg-treów

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1 wearg-treów

n. The accursed tree, a gallows, gibbet, cross :-- Tó ðe waritroe, Cod. Dip. Kmbl. iii. 375, 25. [Nu raise þai up þe rode; setis up þe warhtreo, O. E. Homl. i. 283, 9. Doð up and waritreo, þer on heo scullen winden (hongy, 2nd MS.), Laym. 5714. Me ledde him uorte hongen o waritreo, A. R. 122, 8. Let heom don adun of þe waritreo, Misc. 51, 491. Icel. varg-tré a gallows.]
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Runic Inscription

Runic Inscription

ᚹᛠᚱᚷ-ᛏᚱᛖᚩᚹ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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