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Old English Dictionary Entry

Wyrm-sele

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1 wyrm-sele

m. A serpent-hall [cf. the hall, thick swarming now, With ... scorpion, and asp ... Cerastes horned, hydrus, and elops drear, And dipsas, Par. Lost 10, 522 sqq.], a place where there are serpents (hell) :-- Ne þearf hé hopian ðæt hé þonan móte, of ðam wyrmsele, Judth. Thw. 23, 13; Jud. 119.
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Runic Inscription

ᚹᚣᚱᛗ-ᛋᛖᛚᛖ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc