Ofer-wacian

Old English Dictionary Entry

Ofer-wacian

Old English Dictionary Entry

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1 ofer-wacian

to keep watch, over, act as a guard :--Julianus wýcode wið ða eá Eufraten, and him olerwacedon syfanfealde weardes, Homl. Skt. i. 3, 271. ofer-wacian

Runic Inscription

ᚩᚠᛖᚱ-ᚹᚪᚳᛁᚪᚾ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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