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  • Ðis spell (hanc historiam) mé sume þára sægdon, þá þe hit from þǽm sylfan were gehýrdon, Bd. 4, 21; Sch. 462, 15. I a. add :-- Nis tó geortrýwanne ꝥ on úre yldo ꝥ beón mihte ꝥ oft geworden getreówe spell cýþað nec diffidendum est nostra aetate fieri potuisse quod aliquoties factum fideles historiae narrant, Bd. 4, 19; Sch. 441, 10. I b. add :-- Ic wille geswígian Tontolis and Philopes þára scondlicestena spella . . . on spellum and on leóðum hiora gewin cúðe sindon

    nec mihi enumerare opus est Tantali et Pelopis facta turpia, fabulas turpiores . . , certamina in fabulis celebrare solita sunt,

      Ors. 1, 8; S. 42, 7-14.
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  • Ne mót nán man secgan spell on þám ðrím swígdagum,

      Hml. Th. ii. 262, 16.
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v. an-, leásung-spell.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “spell.” 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/58347.

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