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Spear-hafoc

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1 spear-hafoc

m. A sparrow-hawk:--Spaerhabuc alietum (alietus an hobey, Wülck. Gl. 562, 48), Wrt. Voc. ii. 99, 67. Spearhafuc, 7, 65: i. 280, 20. Spearhafoc hetum, 62, 16: accipiter vel raptor, 29, 58: ismarus ( =ismerlus? cf. French émerillon a merlin), 63, 25. [Sparow-hawke nisus, Wrt. Voc. i. 177, 14. Icel. sparr-haukr. Cf. O. H. Ger. sparwári nisus: Ger. sperber; and the borrowed Romance forms, Fr. épervier; Ital. sparviere.] spear-hafoc
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Runic Inscription

Runic Inscription

ᛋᛈᛠᚱ-ᚻᚪᚠᚩᚳ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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Wright, T. & Wülcker, R. P., Anglo-Saxon and Old English Vocabularies
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