Wíte-stów

Old English Dictionary Entry

Wíte-stów

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: e; Related words:

Definitions

1 wíte-stów

f. A place of punishment or torment, hell :-- Upp cómon sume ðara ðýstra gásta of ðære neowolnesse and of ðære wítestówe (de abysso illa flammivoma), Bd. 5, 12; S. 628, 41. Nis hér (in hell) nú nǽnig wóp, swá hit ǽr gewunelíc wæs on ðisse wítestówe, Blickl. Homl. 85, 29. wite-stow

Runic Inscription

ᚹᛁᛏᛖ-ᛋᛏᚩᚹ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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