Twi-wyrdig

Old English Dictionary Entry

Twi-wyrdig

Old English Dictionary Entry

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1 twi-wyrdig

adj. Making contradictory or discordant statements, atvariance in what is said :-- Hié swá twywyrdige sindon they disagree in what they say (ille promisit futura meliora, isti asserunt meliora praeterita), Ors. 2, 5; Swt. 86, 8. Hé com tó Róme and diégellíce geceápede ðæt hié ealle wǽron ymb hiene twywyrdige cum Romam ipse venisset, omnibus pecunia corruptis seditiones dissensionesque permiscuit, 5, 7; Swt. 228, 18. [Cf. Icel. tví-mæli a dispute, a discordant report, one saying this, another that.] twi-wyrdig

Runic Inscription

ᛏᚹᛁ-ᚹᚣᚱᛞᛁᚷ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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