Wine-scipe

Old English Dictionary Entry

Wine-scipe

Old English Dictionary Entry

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Definitions

1 wine-scipe

m. Friendship :-- Winescipe collegio (the passage is: Inseparabili angelicae sodalitatis collegio perfrui, Ald. 15), Wrt. Voc. ii. 77, 10: 18, 5. Lǽst wǽre and winescype, word ða wit sprǽcon, Exon. Th. 172, 17; Gú. 1145. [Icel. vin-skapr friendship: Dan. ven-skab. Cf. O. H. Ger. wine-scaft, -scaf amor, foedus.] wine-scipe

Runic Inscription

ᚹᛁᚾᛖ-ᛋᚳᛁᛈᛖ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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