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Old English Dictionary Entry

Wyrd-writere

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1 wyrd-writere

m. One who writes an account of events, a historian, historiographer :-- Wurdwrítere historiographus, Hpt. Gl. 453. 1 : 468, 65. Andromachus se wyrdwrítere, Anglia viii. 307, 9. Se wyrdwrítere Ióséphus áwrát on ðære cyrclícan gereccednesse, ðæt Héródes lytle hwíle æfter Ióhannes deáðe ríces weólde, Homl. Th. i. 488, 12. Wyrdwríteras secgaþ, 80, 5 : 454, 11 : Homl. Skt. i. 3, 21 : ii. 25, 676. Wyrdwrítera historiographorum, Hpt. Gl. 410, 54. wyrd-writere
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ᚹᚣᚱᛞ-ᚹᚱᛁᛏᛖᚱᛖ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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