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Old English Dictionary Entry

Wirs-líc

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1 wirs-líc

adj. Mean, vile:--Ðysse worulde wela is wyrslíc and yfellíc and forwordenlíc, Wulfst. 263, 13. Ic eom wyrslícre ðonne ðes wudu fúla, oððe ðis waroð, ðe hér áworpen ligeþ on eorþan, Exon. Th. 424, 32; Rä. 41, 48. wirs-lic
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Runic Inscription

Runic Inscription

ᚹᛁᚱᛋ-ᛚᛁᚳ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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