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  • Betwux tham wearth of-slagen [off-slain] Eadwine his eam

    Early Britain Anglo-Saxon Britain Grant Allen 1873

  • In the old Frisian dialect, which agrees with English in more words than "bread, butter and cheese," we find the primary meaning of terms which with us have survived only in their secondary senses, e.g. killen = to beat and slagen

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

  • Tolvmannakraft har björnen, av _en_ man slagen; mot svärdshugg hålles skölden, mot våldet lagen.

    Fritiofs Saga Esaias Tegn��r 1814

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