Westane

Old English Dictionary Entry

Westane

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: Related words: From the west, in the west

Definitions

1 westane

ad :-- Ða beorgas onginnaþ westane fram ðæm Wendelsǽ in Narbonense ðære ðeóde, and endiaþ eást in Dalmatia ðæm lande æt ðæm sǽ Alpes a Gallico mari exsurgentes, primum Narbonensium fines, deinde Galliam Rhetiamque secludunt, donec in sinu Liburnico defigantur, Ors. 1, 1 ; Swt. 22, 19. Dioclitianus and Maximianus bebudon éhtnesse cristenra monna, Dioclitianus eástane, Maximianus westane (in occidente), 6, 30; Swt. 280, 18. [O. Sax. westana : O. H. Ger. westana ab occidente.]

Runic Inscription

ᚹᛖᛋᛏᚪᚾᛖ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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