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Old English Dictionary Entry

Wól-gewinn

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1 wól-gewinn

n. A conflict where there is a great mortality :-- Gif hié gemunan willaþ hiora ieldrena unclǽnnessa, and heora wólge-winna, and hiora monigfealdan unsibbe recolant majorum suorum tempora, bellis inquietissima, sceleribus exsecrabilia, dissensionibus foeda, Ors. 2, I ; Swt. 64, 15. wol-gewinn
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Runic Inscription

Runic Inscription

ᚹᚩᛚ-ᚷᛖᚹᛁᚾᚾ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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Works & Authors

Ors.
Orosius, Historiarum (OE translation by Alfred)
Swt.
Sweet's Anglo-Saxon Reader
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