Bán-hring

Old English Dictionary Entry

Bán-hring

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: es; Related words:

Definitions

1 bán-hring

m. A bone-ring, a neck-bone; ossium artus, vertebra :-- Ðæt hire wið halse heard grápode, bánhringas bræc against her neck it griped her hard, broke the bone-rings, Beo. Th. 3138; B. 1567. ban-hring

Runic Inscription

ᛒᚪᚾ-ᚻᚱᛝ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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