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Wrigian

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1 wrigian

p. ode To turn, wend, hie, go, move : -- þeáh ðú teó hwelcne bóh of dúne tó ðære eorþan, swelce ðú bégan mæge, swá ðú hine álǽtst, swá sprincþ hé up, and wrigaþ (cf. went on gecynde, Met. 13, 55) wiþ his gecyndes. . . Swá déþ ǽlc gesceaft, wrigaþ wiþ his gecyndes, and gefagen biþ gif hit ǽfre tó cuman mæge validis quondam viribus acta fronam flectet virga cacumen; hanc si curvans dextra remisit, recto special writes coelum . . . Repetunt proprios quaeque recursus, reditaque suo singula gavdent, Bt. 25; Fox 88, 22-29: xiv, 14. Ǽlc gesceaft wrigaþ and higaþ wið his gecyndes, Met. 13, 65. Wuhta gehwilc wrigaþ tóheald wið ðæs gecyndes . . . þinga gehwilc þiderweard fundaþ, 13, 10. Weard æt steorte (the ploughtail) wrigaþ on wonge the ploughman pushes his way over the field, Exon. Th. 403, 9; Rä. 22, 5. [That feyre founden me mete ant cloht, hue wrieth awey as hue were wroht, Spec. 48, 22. With hir need sche wriede fast awey. Chauc. Mill. T. 97. Hwenne so wil to wene wriedh, R. S. 3, 7. Þy face from hyre þon wry, Mire. 888.] wrigian
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Runic Inscription

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ᚹᚱᛁᚷᛁᚪᚾ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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Works & Authors

Bt.
Boethius, De Consolatione Philosophiæ (OE translation by Alfred)
Exon.
Exeter Book
Fox
Fox, Samuel (Modern English translator of Boethius)
Met.
Metres of Boethius (OE poem)
R.
Riddles (Exeter Book)
S.
Sievers, E. (editor/scholar)
Th.
Thorpe, Benjamin (editor)
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