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Crúland

  • noun [ neuter ]
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Crúland, Crúwland, es; n. [Interprete Ingulpho crūda et cænosa terra, Gib. Chr. explicatio, p. 22, col. 1]
CROWLAND or CROYLAND, Lincolnshire; loci nomen in agro Lincolniensi St. Guthlac, hermit of Crowland, passed a great part of his life and died here in A. D. 714. After his death, king Æthelbald of Mercia founded a monastery at Crowland in A. D. 716
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  • Ðæt abbotríce of Crúlande

    the abbacy of Crowland

    • >Chr. 1066
      • ;
    • Erl. 203, 17: 963
      • ;
    • Erl. 123, 5.

  • Hér wæs Walþeóf eorl beheáfdod on Wincestre, and his líc wearþ gelǽd to Crúlande, and he ðǽr is bebyrged

    in this year [A. D. 1077] earl Waltheof was beheaded at Winchester, and his body was taken to Crowland, and he is there buried

    • 1077
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    • Th. 350, 10
      • .

  • Hí cómon to ðære stówe ðe man háteþ Crúwland

    they came to the place which is called Crowland

    • Guthl. 3
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    • Gdwin. 22, 1: 12
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    • Gdwin. 58, 12.

  • Ðá wæs se eahtoða dæg ðæs kalendes Septembres, ðá se eádiga wer, Gúþlác, com to ðære fore*-*sprecenan stówe, Crúwlande. . . hæfde he ðá on ylde six and twentig wintra

    it was the eighth day before the kalends of September [Ang. 24th, A. D. 699]when the blessed man, Guthlac, came to the aforesaid place, Crowland. . . he was then twenty-six years of age

    • Guthl. 3
      • ;
    • Gdwin. 22, 25-24, 3: 22
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    • Gdwin. 96, 21.
Similar entries
v. Gúþ-lác.
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v.  Gúþ-lác Crúwland.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “Crúland.” 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/6749.

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