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hægtesse

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Add: hægtiss, hægtess, e: hætse, an ; hǽts, e.
afury of the classical mythology
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  • Haehtes

    furia,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 109, 47.
  • Hægtesse

    ,
      36, 29.
  • Hægtes erenis, hægtesse

    eumenides,

      29, 41, 42.
  • Haehtisse, hegitisse

    eumenides, filiae noctis,

      Txts. 59, 772.
  • Hægtessa

    furiarum,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 96, 82.
  • Hegitesum

    furiis,

      An. Ox. 4, 85.
a hag, witch
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  • Haegtis, hegtis

    striga,

      Txts. 99, 1913.
  • Gáð tó þǽre hǽtse vel sceande (Jezabel) and bebyriað hire líc

    ite et videte maledictam illam, et sepelite eam ( 2

    Kings
      9, 34), Hml. S. 18, 350.
  • Sume wíf wyrcad heora . , . wógerum drencas . . . Ac þyllice sceandas sceolan síðian tó helle . . . Crístene men sceolan forhigian þá hǽtsan,

      M. 164.
  • [O. H. Ger. hagazissa (-ussa) furia; házus(-is) strihia, erynnis: Ger. hexe.] Cf. heáh-rún.
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