Wód-frec

Old English Dictionary Entry

Wód-frec

Old English Dictionary Entry

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1 wód-frec

adj. Furiously greedy, raging, ravening: -- Ðæt se wódfreca werewulf (the devil) tó swýðe ne slíte, ne tó fela ne ábíte of godcundre heorde, L. C. E. 26 ; Th. i. 374, 30. Wódfræca, Wulfst. 191, 16. [Cf. O. H. Ger. wuot-grimni tyrannus: Icel. óð-fúss, -gjarn madly eager.] wod-frec

Runic Inscription

ᚹᚩᛞ-ᚠᚱᛖᚳ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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