fēond-sceaþa

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fēond-sceaþa, m.n: enemy, hostile ravager. (FAY-ond-SHEH-ah-tha / ˈfeːɔnd-ˌʃɛa-θa)

Medieval manuscript image of a donkey with a long spear fighting a snail with a large curved sword.
Pontifical de Guillaume Durand. France (Avignon), c. 1357. Paris, Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève, ms. 143, f. 179v. [bvmm.irht.cnrs.fr]

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