Eár
Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - eár
According to the Old English Dictionary:
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- EÁR
- m. The Anglo-Saxon Rune RUNE, which stands for the letters ea: the earth, the ground; hŭmus :-- RUNE byþ egle eorla gehwylcum, ðonne fæstlíce flǽsc onginneþ hráw cólian, hrusan ceósan to gebeddan the ground is hateful to every man, when surely the flesh beginneth to cool as a corpse, to choose the earth for a consort, Runic pm. 29; Kmbl. 345, 10: Hick. Thes. i. 135, 57. [Icel. aurr, m. hŭmus. Hylja auri hŭmo condĕre, Kormak's Saga.] ear