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Old English Dictionary Entry

Sárness

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1 sárness

f. I. bodily pain:--On sárnysse ðú ácenst cild in dolore paries filios, Gen. 3, 16. Freoh fram deáþes sárnysse, Homl. Th. i. 76, 14. II. mental pain, affliction, grief:--Geopenige úre sárnys (the trouble arising from a pestilence) ús infær sóðre gecyrrednysse, ii. 124, 7. Gehrepod mid heortan sárnisse tactus dolore cordis, Gen. 6, 6. Hé ðis eal mid sárnesse beheóld, Ap. Th. 14, 19. Áfirsa fram him his sárnesse, 16, 14. Heu geswutelaþ módes sárnesse, Ælfc. Gr. 5; Som. 4, 1. Helle sárnyssa mé beeodon, and ic on mínre gedréfednysse Drihten clypode, Homl. Th. ii. 86, 17. Ðæt beóþ ða angin, hé cwæð, ðara sárnessa . . . ða sorga and ða sárnessa de on woruld becumaþ, Wulfst. 89, 11-14. sar-ness,sarness
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Runic Inscription

Runic Inscription

ᛋᚪᚱᚾᛖᛋᛋ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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Works & Authors

Gen.
Genesis (OE poem)
Gr.
Ælfric's Grammar
Som.
Somner's Dictionarium Saxonico-Latino-Anglicum
Th.
Thorpe, Benjamin (editor)
Ælfc.
Ælfric
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