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Sceand-full

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1 sceand-full

adj. Shameful, infamous, vile :--Hé (John the Baptist) wæs heáfde becorfen for scandfulra wífa béne, and for scondfulles gebeór-scypes hleahtre, Shrn. 123, 6-8. [Him wule þunche swiðe strong and swiðe scondful þet he scal al aȝeuen and seodðan bisechen milce et þan ilke monne þe he haueð er istolen, O. E. Homl. i. 31, 2.] sceand-full
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Runic Inscription

Runic Inscription

ᛋᚳᛠᚾᛞ-ᚠᚢᛚᛚ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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Shrn.
Shrine (collection of OE texts)
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