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Old English Dictionary Entry

Wripen-hilt

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1 wripen-hilt

adj. Having a kilt bound round [' In some specimens of swords the handles are wound round with gold wire,' Worsaae's Primeval Antiquities, p. 29] :-- Ðæt sweord, írena cyst, wreoþenhilt and wyrmtáh, Beo. Th. 3400 ; B. 1698. wripen-hilt
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Runic Inscription

Runic Inscription

ᚹᚱᛁᛈᛖᚾ-ᚻᛁᛚᛏ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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Works & Authors

Beo.
Beowulf
Th.
Thorpe, Benjamin (editor)
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