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þrág-bisig

  • adjective
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þrág-bisig, adj.
Occupied for a time(?), periodically employed(?)
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  • Ic sceal þrágbysig þegne mínnm hýran georne,

    • Exon. Th. 387, 6
    • ;
    • Rä. 5, 1.
    The subject of the riddle is a millstone, and the Latin riddles on which the English one is based seem to suggest that the epithet might refer to running; Aldhelm has: Par labor ambarum ... altera currit; Symphosius: Non desinit ille moveri. v. Prehn's Rätsel des Exeterbuches. But the verse requires þrág, while the verb,þrægan, has a short vowel; and þrág seems always(?) used in the sense of time.
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