Heáh-helm

Old English Dictionary Entry

Heáh-helm

Old English Dictionary Entry

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1 heáh-helm

adj. Having foliage high up; of a light, having far-reaching rays :-- þone heáhhelman leóman iubar alticomum (the passage is: Modio lateat ne tecta lucerna, sed iubar alticomum Domini diffundat in aedem, Vita S. Cudbercti c. 21, 50), Hpt. 33, 238, 1. heah-helm

Runic Inscription

ᚻᛖᚪᚻ-ᚻᛖᛚᛗ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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