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wundrung

  • noun [ feminine ]
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wundrung, e; f.
wondering, wonder, admiration, astonishment
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  • Hwæt is ðeós wundrung ðe gé wafiaþ?

    • Exon. Th. 6, 24
      • ;
    • Cri. 89.

  • Eall hé wæs ful wundrunge and wafunge; and eác ða byrig hé geseah eall on óþre wísan gewend, on óþre heó ǽr wæs,

      Homl. Skt. i. 23, 509.

  • Heó mid wundrunge wearð befangen,

      2, 251.

  • Hé þearle siððan Maurum wurðode, and on wundrunge hæfde (held him in admiration),

      6, 185.

  • Ðǽr heó líð óð ðis on mycelre árwurðnysse mannum tó wundrunge (to the admiration of men),

      20, 101.

  • Hé on ðære micclan his módes wundrunge ðǽr gestód dreórig

    in the great bewilderment of his mind he stood there downcast,

      23, 627.

  • Hí wundrodon mycelre wundrunge

    obstupuerunt stupore maximo,

      Mk. Skt. 5, 42.

  • Pape geswutelaþ wundrunge,

    • Ælfc. Gr. 5
      • ;
    • Zap. 11, 3.

  • Interjectio getácnaþ hwílon ðæs módes blisse, hwílon sárnysse, hwílon wundrunge,

    • 48
      • ;
    • Zup. 278, 6.
a wonderful sight, a spectacle
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  • Wundrunge

    spectaculi,

      Hpt. Gl. 508, 27.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “wundrung.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/36872.

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