Wæl-not

According to the Old English Dictionary:

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wæl-not

m. A fatal mark, a mark that brings death, a rune that brings death, fiends) gefeteraþ fǽges monnes handa, gehefegaþ ðonne hé æt hilde sceall wið láð werud lífes tiligan; áwrítaþ hié on his wǽpne wælnota heáp, bealwe bócstafas, Salm. Kmbl. 324; Sal. 161. wæl-not

Related words: Kemble in Archæologia, vol. 28, p. 336. See for baleful influence of runes, Egils Saga, c. 75: Grettis Saga, c. 81; see also Corpus Poeticum Boreale, vol. i. pp. 40, 41, for the virtues of runes :-- Hwílum hié (