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Old English Dictionary Entry

Weorold-gebyrd[u]

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1 weorold-gebyrd[u]

f. Birth (natural not spiritual) :-- Hé wæs on his móde æþelra ðonne on woruldgebyrdum erat animo quam carne nobilior, Bd. 3, 19; S. 547, 26. Wæs heó æþele in weoruldgebyrdum, ðæt heó wæs ðæs cyninges nefan dohtor nobilis natu erat, hoc est, filia nepotis regis, 4, 23; S. 593, 2.
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Runic Inscription

Runic Inscription

ᚹᛇᚱᚩᛚᛞ-ᚷᛖᛒᚣᚱᛞ[ᚢ]

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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Bd.
Bede, Historia Ecclesiastica (OE translation)
S.
Sievers, E. (editor/scholar)
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