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Winter-cearig

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1 winter-cearig

adj. Sad from age or from the gloom of winter:--Ic heán wód wintercearig (sad with the load of years(?), cf. Gemon hé hú hine on geóguðe his goldwine wenede tó wiste, 288, 22; Wand. 35: or depressed by gloomy winter(?), cf. Ic earmcearig íscealdne sǽ winter wunade wræccan lástum, 306, 27; Seef. 14) ofer waþema gebind, Exon. Th. 287, 34; Wand. 24. winter-cearig
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Runic Inscription

Runic Inscription

ᚹᛁᚾᛏᛖᚱ-ᚳᛠᚱᛁᚷ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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Exon.
Exeter Book
Th.
Thorpe, Benjamin (editor)
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