Wóda

Old English Dictionary Entry

Wóda

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: an; Related words:

Definitions

1 wóda

m. A madman, an insane person, one possessed :-- Wóda epilepticus. Wrt. Voc. ii. 107, 30: demoniaticus, insanus, amens, Wülck. Gl. 218, 41. Wódan limphaticum, Wrt. Voc. ii. 53, 56. Hé eode út tó ðám earmum wódum, Homl. Skt. i. 6, 203. Wódan inergumenos, Wrt. Voc. ii. 110. 57; 45, 8. [O. H. Ger. wuoto.] woda

Runic Inscription

ᚹᚩᛞᚪ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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