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leód-rúne

  • noun [ feminine ]
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leód-rúne, an; f.
A witch, wise woman [cf. burh-rúne furia; helle-rúne pythonissa: Grmm. D. M. 375 on the forms of feminine names in -rín, -rúna]:--
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  • Wið ǽlcre yfelre leódrúnan ... eft óðer dust and drenc wið leódrúnan,

    • L. M. 1, 64
    • ;
    • Lchdm. ii. 138, 23, 26
    • .
    Cockayne translates the word

    'heathen charm.'

    Cf. Laym. 9121 seolcuðe leodronen [tocke, 2nd. MS.]: leoten weorpen fondien leodrunen [incantations ], 15499, 15511: leodrunen [deorne rouning, 2nd MS.], 14553.
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  • leód-rúne, n.