Wítnung-stów

Old English Dictionary Entry

Wítnung-stów

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: e; Related words: wítung-stów. witnung-stow

Definitions

1 wítnung-stów

f. A place of punishment:--Seó micele byrnende dene is wítnungstów, in ðære beóð manna sáwla gewítnode and geclǽnsode, Homl. Th. ii. 352, 20. Oft men wurdon of ðisum lífe gelǽdde, and eft tó lífe árǽrde, and hí fela wítnungstówa and eác hálgena wununga gesáwon, 354, 28.

Runic Inscription

ᚹᛁᛏᚾᚢᛝ-ᛋᛏᚩᚹ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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