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ge-rídan

  • verb [ strong ]
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ge-rídan, p. -rád; pp. -riden
To ride, reach or obtain by riding, get into one's power, subject
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  • Ðá he gerád to Ecgbryhtes stáne

    then he rode to Brixton,

    • Chr. 878
      • ;
    • Erl. 80, 8
      • .

  • Se ðe næs gerád

    he who rode to the ness,

    • Beo. Th. 5789
      • ;
    • B. 2898
      • .

  • Ðá gerád he ða burg æt Tameworþige

    then he rode and took the town at Tamworth,

    • Chr. 922
      • ;
    • Erl. 108, 24: 901
      • ;
    • Erl. 96, 26
      • .

  • Se here geridon Wesseaxna lond and gesǽton micel ðæs folces ofer sǽ adrǽfdon and ðæs óðres ðone mǽstan dǽl hie geridon

    the [Danish] army rode to Wessex and occupied it; much of the folk they drove over sea and most part of the rest they got into their power,

    • 878
      • ;
    • Erl. 78, 29-32
      • .

  • He gerád eall Norþhymbra land him to gewealde

    he got all Northumberland into his power,

    • 948
      • ;
    • Erl. 117, 9
      • .

  • Se cing lét gerídan ealle ða land ðe his módor áhte him to handa

    the king caused all the lands that his mother owned to be brought under his own control,

    • 1043
      • ;
    • Erl. 168, 8
      • .
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v.  ge-faran ge-rád.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-rídan.” 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/15705.

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