Wertacen?

According to the Old English Dictionary:

:--Sagaþ Scs. Ióhannis sóðum wordum wíslíce and wærlíce swá se wertacen (

wertacen?

a later rendering of the passage has swa se wyrhte cann, 476, 66, as if the word = werhta cann), Engl. Stud. viii. 478, 75. wertacen