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Old English Dictionary Entry

Burg-stal

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1 burg-stal

m. [burg = beorg, beorh a hill, stal a place, seat, dwelling] A hill-seat, dwelling on a hill; sedes super collem vel clivum. Cot. 209. The name of places built on a hill, as Burstall in Suffolk, Borstall in Kent and Oxfordshire, etc. burg-stal
Runic Inscription

Runic Inscription

ᛒᚢᚱᚷ-ᛋᛏᚪᛚ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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Cot.
Cottonian Manuscripts
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