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ord, <b>I a.</b>
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  • On þám ordum þára þorna

    in illis spinarum aculeis,

      Gr. D. 101, 16.
[perhaps here rather than under I d
belongs Burgwarena ord (applied to Adam), Hö. 56. In v. 35 hell is spoken of as a burh, and the burhwaran are the departed in hell, of whom Adam was the progenitor.] Add
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  • Hé bið heora deáðes ord

    eorum mortis auctor fit,

      Chrd. 92, 23.
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[O. Fr. mith egge and mid orde.]
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