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Bryten

  • noun [ feminine ]
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Grammar
Bryten, Bryton, Briten, Breoten, Breoton, Broten, Brittan, Britten, Brytten; gen. dat. acc. e; f. acc. also as nom.
BRITAIN; Britannia, Cambria
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  • Brytene ígland is ehta hund míla lang

    the island of Britain is eight hundred miles long,

    • Chr. Th. 3, l, col. l
      • :
    • 3, 10, col. I. 3
      • .

  • Syxtigum wintrum ǽr ðam ðe Crist wære acenned, Gaius Iulius, Rómána cásere [MS. kasere], mid hund-eahtatigum scipum, gesóhte Brytene

    sixty years before Christ was born, Caius Julius, emperor of the Romans, with eighty vessels, sought Britain,

    • Chr. Th. 5, 17-21, col. 3, 1. 2
      • .

  • Breoton [Brytene C] is eálond ðæt wæs iú geára Albion háten

    Britain is an island that was formerly called Albion,

    • Bd. l, l
      • ;
    • S. 473, 8
      • :
    • 2, l
      • ;
    • S. 501, 10
      • .

  • On Bretone

    into Britain,

    • Bd. 1, 15
      • ;
    • S. 483, 2
      • .

  • Bryten, acc.

    • Exon. 45 b
      • ;
    • Th. 155, 5
      • ;
    • Gú. 855
      • .
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v.  Breoten Breoton Breten Briten Broten Bryt-land Bryton Brytten.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “Bryten.” 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/5333.

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