be-hēafdung

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be-hēafdung, f.n: beheading. (beh-HAY-ahv-dung / bɛ-ˈheːav-dʌŋ)

Medieval manuscript image of a man being beheaded by a man with a sword; the head and drops of blood fall to the ground, while a man with an axe looks on and a hand bearing a dove reaches down from the sky.
Miscellany on the Life of St Edmund; England (Bury St Edmunds), c. 1130; Morgan Library & Museum, MS M.736, f. 14v. [themorgan.org]

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