Bosworth Toller's

Anglo-Saxon

Dictionary online

æ
þ

wíg-bed

  • noun [ neuter ]
Dictionary links
Grammar
wíg-bed, wí-bed, wió-bed, -bud, wié-bed, weó-bed, -bud, weófod (-ed, -ud), wéfod, es, also -beddes; <b>n.</b> (generally, but se weóbud, Past. 33; Swt. 217, 21, and pl. wíbedas, Bd. 5, 20; S. 641, 42)
An altar [from wíg (wíh) and beód; some forms, e.g. wígbeddes, weóbedd, suggest that the word was thought to be derived from bed]
Show examples

  • Weófod altar vel

    ara,

      Wrt. Voc. i. 26, 51.

  • Hé scolde ðone Godes alter habban uppan áholodne, ðæt hé meahte on healdan ða lác ðe mon bróhte tó ðæm weóbude; for ðæm, gif se weóbud ufan hol nǽre, and ðǽr wind tó cóme, ðonne tóstencte hé ða lác. Hwæt elles getácnaþ ðæt weóbud búton ryhtwisra monna sáula? ... Wæs eall sió offrung uppe on ðæt wiébed (wióbud,

      Cott. MSS.) bróht, Past. 33; Swt. 217, 19-25.

  • Ðæt weóbud,

      219, 3.

  • Wígbed,

      Bd. 2, 3; S. 504, 39.

  • Ðæt weófud (-od,

      MS. A.: wígbed. Lind.: wíbed, Rush.), Mt. Kmbl. 23, 19.

  • Wígbedes hornas

    cornu altaris,

      Ps. Th. 117, 25: Ps. Lamb. 117, 27.

  • Tó wígbedes ðénunge,

      Bd. 2, 20; S. 522, 9: 5, 10; S. 624, 34.

  • Wígbedes (weófodes, col. 1),

      3, 17; S. 544, 3, col. 2.

  • Weófodes (wígbeddes,

      Lind.: wí-bedes, Rush.), Lk. Skt. 1, 11.

  • Weófodes þén,

      Homl. Ass. 22, 206.

  • Weóuedes (weófedes),

      R. Ben. 55, 2.

  • On wígbede tó hálsienne

    ariolandi,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 9, 15.

  • Án dǽl ðam wíbede (wígbede,

    v. l.

    ),
      L. E. B. 12; Th. ii. 242, 18: Bd. 3, 23; S. 555, 14.

  • Tó wíbede,

      Ps. Surt. 42, 4.

  • Tó weófode (wígbed,

      Lind.: weófud ł wíbede, Rush.), Mt. Kmbl. 5, 23.

  • On wígbed ðín,

      Ps. C. 138.

  • Tó wígbed (beforan ðæt weófud ł wíbed, Rush.)

    ad altare,

      Mt. Kmbl. Lind. 5, 24.

  • Ic ymbgaa wíbed ðín,

      Ps. Surt. 25, 6: Cd. Th. 107, 18; Gen. 1791: 108, 14; Gen. 1806: 113, 5; Gen. 1882.

  • Weóbedd,

      172, 8; Gen. 2841.

  • Uppan ðæt weófod,

      Ex. 24, 6: 29, 20.

  • Lege under weófod,

      Lchdm. ii. 138, 28: 142, 8.

  • Wígbedu (wíbed, Surt.: weófod, Spl.: wiébed, Spl. T.) ðín

    altaria tua,

      Ps. Th. 83, 4.

  • Tó wígbedum,

      Bd. 1, 27; 8. 488, 38.

  • Wíbedum (

    v. l.

    weófodum),
      1, 15; S. 484, 1.

  • Tó Godes weófedan,

      L. Eth. vii. 26; Th. i. 334, 30.

  • Tó hálgum wéfodum,

      Coll. Monast. Th. 36, 5.

  • Ðæt tempel and ða weófedu (wígbedo, Bd. M. 136, 18) ... ða wígbed and ða heargas

    templa et altaria ... aras et fana,

      Bd. 2, 13; S. 516, 33-39.

  • Ða wígbed (

    v. l.

    weófedu),
      S. 517, 18.

  • Hé wíbedas sette,

      5, 20; S. 641, 42.

  • Wíbedu

    arulas,

      Germ. 394, 259.

  • Paulus sceáwode ða weófoda, óþ ðæt hé funde án weófod ðe ðis gewrit on stód:

    Deo ignoto,

    ðæt is on
      Englisc, '
    Uncúðum gode is ðis weófod hálig,' Homl. Skt. ii. 29, 21.

  • Hig ðǽr gedydon twá weófedu,

      Blickl. Homl. 205, 15. [Laym. weofed (wefd, 2nd MS.), weofd; dat. wæfde (wefde, 2nd MS.): A. R. Kath. weoued: Ps. R. Glouc. weved: Ayenb. wieved.
    ]
Linked entries
v.  beód weó-bed wí-bed wíg-gebed wíh.
Entry information
Citation

Bosworth, Joseph. “wíg-bed.” 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/35632.

Checked: 0
Full form

Word-wheel

  • wíg-bed, n.

Copyright

All the data provided here are free for any purpose. If you use the data for academic purposes, we ask that you kindly cite us as your source. In case you need a large portion of the dictionary data or you need it in a specific format, let us know through the contact form, we are happy to do custom database dumps for researchers.

How to cite

You can cite the entries of the online version of the dictionary, or you can cite the scanned pages of the original paper editions.

  • To cite the online version of the dictionary, click the icon right under the entry.
  • To cite the scanned paper version of the dictionary, click the "show/hide this scanned page" link under the entry, check the scan and use the citation information right above it.