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mann-bryne

  • noun [ masculine ]
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Grammar
mann-bryne, es; m.
A fire in which men lose their lives(?)
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  • Ðá wæs swíðe micel mancwealm, and se micela manbryne wæs on Lundene, and Paules mynster forbarn,

    • Chr. 962
    • ;
    • Erl. 120, 6.
    [Thorpe with previous translators renders the word by

    fever

    ; Earle would read mánbryne =

    destructive fire.

    If mánbryne be taken perhaps an

    incendiary fire

    is meant.]
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v.  mán-bryne.
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  • mann-bryne, n.