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That shoudl be fylfot. According to Skeat it is "due to a mistake". The
word referred orignally to a decoration that "filled the foot" of a painted
window at the bottom. You'll find it in this sense in MS Lansd. 874, leaf
190 (so Skeat says!). He then suggests in modern times it was erroneously
connected with the swastika.
It is also, of course, found very early in Greece.
Peter