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Old English Dictionary Entry

Sceád-wís

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1 sceád-wís

adj. Intelligent, discerning, discriminating :-- Be gesceádwísan geréfan. Se scádwís geréfa sceal ǽgðer witan ge hláfordes landriht ge folces gerihtu, Angl. ix. 259, 3. Mid hú sceádwísre lufe manncynna ealdor for úre edstaðelunge þǽre róde gealgan underféng, Hml. Th. i. 588, 88.
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Runic Inscription

Runic Inscription

ᛋᚳᛖᚪᛞ-ᚹᛁᛋ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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Hml.
Homilies (Ælfric or other)
Th.
Thorpe, Benjamin (editor)
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