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  • Him on edwít oft ásettað swearte súslbonan, [Satan on] stǽleð fǽhðe, þǽr þe hié freódrihten oft forgeáton

    the enmity they showed their Lord in frequently forgetting him is made a reproach to them by the devils, and is laid to their charge by Satan,

      Sat. 640.

  • Feówertig daga fǽhðe ic wille on weras stǽlan

    for forty days will I make on men my charge of enmity against me,

      Gen. 1352.

  • In the last line but one for

    death read wounding, for slain, wounded.] Add:

    :-- Men him eallinga ne ondrǽdaþ, hú ꝥ dióful him on stǽleð ealle þá unrihtan weorc þe hér worhte bióð,
      Verc. Först. 89, 11.

  • Þæt mé ne mótan þá dreórgan deófla æt mínum ende ne on dómdæge míne synna on stǽlan (cf. þæt mé nǽfre deófel náht on ne mæge bestǽlan,

      101, 52), Angl. xi. 100, 94: Verc. Först. 147, 29.
[ For Sat. 640 and Gen. 1352 substitute
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Bosworth, Joseph. “stǽlan.” 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/58438.

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