Stæl

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - stæl

According to the Old English Dictionary:

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stæl
stalworth (N. E. D.) it is said that the quantity of the vowel is certain from the three occurrences in poetry. But in two of these, Reb. 11: Gen. 1113, the word is a 'final lift', of which Sweet remarks 'the quantity is indifferent,' A. S. Rdr. § 361; in the third the quantity might be short on the analogy of such a verse as :-- His wiðerbrecan, Gen. 66: Dan. 66 : Gú. 265. stæl
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