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Old English Dictionary Entry

Wrixl

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1 wrixl

f. I. change, alteration, vicissitude :-- Ðæt is wræclíc wrixl in wera lífe, ðætte moncynnes Scyppend onféng æt fǽmnan flǽsc, and sió weres friga wiht ne cúþe, Exon. Th. 26, 12; Cri. 416. God, ðú ðe gimetgaþ giscæfta wrixla (rerum vices), Rtl. 164, 12. II. where there is alternation, alternation, exchange :-- Mid ðý hí ðysse ungesǽligan wrixie (hac infelici vicissitudine, i. e. the passing from heat to cold and vice versa) ðrǽste wǽron. Bd. 5, 12 ; S. 628, 2. III. where there is reciprocal action, interchange :-- Ðǽr wæs heard plega, wælgára wrixl, Cd. Th. 120, 5 ; Gen. 1990. IV. where one thing takes the place of another, place, stead :-- Ðomie sculon hié gadrian óðer ierfe on ðæs wrixie (wriexle, Hatt. MS. ) ðe hé ǽr sealdon, Past. 45 ; Swt. 340, 18. Hæfdon hí mid him gehálgode tabulan on wígbedes wrixie habentes secum tabulam altaris vice dedicatam, Bd. 5, 10; S. 624, 34. V. a loan: -- Borge odde wrixie mutuo. Wrt. Voc. ii. 56, 5. Wrixie mutuum (Lk. 6, 34), 74, 43. VI. what is given in return, return, requital :-- Hé forgeald wyrsan wrixie wælhlem ðone ; . . . hé him on heáfde helm gescær, Beo. Th. 5930; B. 2969.
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Runic Inscription

Runic Inscription

ᚹᚱᛁᚳᛋᛚ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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Works & Authors

Bd.
Bede, Historia Ecclesiastica (OE translation)
Beo.
Beowulf
Cd.
Codex Diplomaticus Saxonici (Kemble)
Cri.
Christ (OE poem by Cynewulf)
Exon.
Exeter Book
Gen.
Genesis (OE poem)
Lk.
Gospel of St. Luke (OE translation)
Past.
Alfred's Pastoral Care (Gregory's Cura Pastoralis)
S.
Sievers, E. (editor/scholar)
Swt.
Sweet's Anglo-Saxon Reader
Th.
Thorpe, Benjamin (editor)
Voc.
Vocabulary
Wrt.
Wright, T. & Wülcker, R. P., Anglo-Saxon and Old English Vocabularies
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