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Old English Dictionary Entry

Windel-stán

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1 windel-stán

m. A tower with a winding staircase :-- Windelstán coclea, gewind circuitus ascensus (the word occurs in a list of names of buildings), Wrt. Voc. i. 37, 3. [O. H. Ger. wentil-stein cochlea, turris in qua per circuitum scanditur.] windel-stan
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Runic Inscription

Runic Inscription

ᚹᛁᚾᛞᛖᛚ-ᛋᛏᚪᚾ

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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