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land-leód

  • noun [ masculinefeminine ]
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land-leód, es; m.[?]: e; f.
The people of a country
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  • Se wer gebiraþ mágum, and seó cynebót ðám leódum;

    other reading:--

    Ðam were habbaþ ða mǽgas and ðam cynebót se [seó?] landleód,

    • L. Wg
    • ;
    • Th. i. 190, 9, and note 14.
  • Schmid p. 396 gives the further reading :--

    Ðæt cynebót tó ðam landleód.

    [These passages seem corrupt, so that much reliance perhaps cannot be placed upon them for determining the gender, but it may be noticed that O. H. Ger. lant-liut is masc. v. Grff. ii. 195.]

    Se fyrdinge dyde ðære landleóde ǽlcne hearm

    the levy did the people of the country every kind of harm,

    • Chr. 1006
    • ;
    • Erl. 140, 12
    • .
  • Ealle ðás landleóda belicgaþ ús

    all these people will surround us,

    • Jos. 7, 9
    • .
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  • land-leód, n.