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Old English Dictionary Entry

Wíte-stów

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1 wíte-stów

f. A place of punishment or torment, hell :-- Upp cómon sume ðara ðýstra gásta of ðære neowolnesse and of ðære wítestówe (de abysso illa flammivoma), Bd. 5, 12; S. 628, 41. Nis hér (in hell) nú nǽnig wóp, swá hit ǽr gewunelíc wæs on ðisse wítestówe, Blickl. Homl. 85, 29. wite-stow
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Runic Inscription

Runic Inscription

ᚹᛁᛏᛖ-ᛋᛏᚩᚹ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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Works & Authors

Bd.
Bede, Historia Ecclesiastica (OE translation)
S.
Sievers, E. (editor/scholar)
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