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Windel

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m. A basket :-- Windil cartellus, Wrt. Voc. ii. 102, 42. Windel, 13, 9 : cartellus, fiscella, 128, 78: cistella vel cartellum, i. 24, 56: cartallum, 86, 4. Wylige oððe windel corbis, Ælfc. Gr. 9, 28 ; Zup. 55, 13. Ða hláfas on ðam windle (canistro), Ex. 29, 32. Ic geseah swefen, ðæt ys, ðæt ic hæfde þrí windlas (canistra) ofer mín heáfod, and on ðam ufemystan windle (canistro) wǽre manegra cynna gebæc, Gen. 40, 17. Ðá nam heó ánne riscenne windel (fiscellam scirpeam) on scipwísan gesceapenne, Ex. 2, 3, 5, 6. Man sceal habban wilian, windlas, systras, sǽdleáp, Anglia ix. 264, 12. windel
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Runic Inscription

Runic Inscription

ᚹᛁᚾᛞᛖᛚ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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Gen.
Genesis (OE poem)
Gr.
Ælfric's Grammar
Voc.
Vocabulary
Wrt.
Wright, T. & Wülcker, R. P., Anglo-Saxon and Old English Vocabularies
Ælfc.
Ælfric
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