Sweord-wyrhta

Old English Dictionary Entry

Sweord-wyrhta

Old English Dictionary Entry

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Definitions

1 sweord-wyrhta

m. A sword-wright, maker of swords, armourer:?-Móna se án and twentigoða unnytlíce tó wyrcenne bútan swurdwyrhtan (but the word glosses gladiatoribus), Lchdm. iii. 194, 10. sweord-wyrhta

Runic Inscription

ᛋᚹᛇᚱᛞ-ᚹᚣᚱᚻᛏᚪ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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