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wíg-cræft

  • noun [ masculine ]
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wíg-cræft, es; m.
war-craft, military skill
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  • Pirrus wæs gemǽrsad ofer eall óþere cyningas, ǽgðer ge mid his miclan fultume, ge mid his rǽdþeahtunge, ge mid his wígcræfte

    Pyrrhus in se, ob magni-tudinem virium consiliorumque, summam belli nomenque traduxit

    ,
      Ors. 4, l; Swt. 154, 27.

  • Hý him grimme forguldon ðone wígcræft ðe hý æt him geleornodon

    vincere, dum vincitur, edocuit

    ,
      I. 2; Swt. 30, 7.
  • Hé hæfde Higeláces hilde gefrunen, wlonces wígcræft (or
?), Beo. Th. 5898; B. 2953. 1a.
a warlike art, a warlike engine
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  • Hý wurdon geráde wígcræfta,

      Ors. 1. 2 ; Swt. 30, 6.

  • Mid scotum, ge mid stána torfungum, ge mid eallum heora wígcræftum

    vis magna telorum

    ,
      3, 9 ; Swt. 134, 16.

  • Wígcræftum

    machinis

    ,
      Wrt. Voc. ii. 58, 33.
warlike force, military power (abstract or concrete)
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  • On Thessali hé ðæt gewinn swíþost dyde for ðære gewilnunge ðe hé wolde hî him on fultum geteón for heora wígcræfte, for ðon hié cúþon on horsum ealra folca feohtan betst

    Thessaliam ambitione habendorum equitum Thessalo-rum, quorum robur ut exercitui suo admiscerit, invasit

    ,
      Ors. 3, 7 ; Swt. 112, 3.

  • Hé (

    Christ

    ) mihte, gif hé wolde, wígcræft habban sóna genóhne (cf.
      Mt. 26, 53), L. Ælfc. P. 51 ; Th. ii. 386, 34.

  • Ðá beþóhtan hié ealle heora wígcræftas Exantipuse

    Xanlhippum, cum auxiliis accitum, ducem bello praefecerunt

    .
      Ors. 4, 6; Swt. 174, 30.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “wíg-cræft.” 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/35648.

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