Wīsle

Old English Dictionary Entry

Wīsle

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: an; Related words:

Definitions

1 Wīsle

f. The Vistula :-- Weonodland wæs ūs ealne weg on steorbord ōd Wīslemūdan. Seó Wīsle is swȳde mycel eá, and hió tōlīd Witland and Weonodland ; and seó Wīsle līd ūt of Weonodlande, and līd in Estmere . . . Ðonne cymeþ Ilfing eástan, and Wīsle sūdan, and benimd Wīsle Ilfing hire naman . . . ; for dȳ hit man hǣt Wīslemūda, Ors. l, l; Swt. 20, 6-13. wisle

Runic Inscription

ᚹᛁᛋᛚᛖ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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