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firdian

  • verb [ weak ]
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Take here passages under flerdian, fyrdian, and add:
To go on an expedition, march, be on active service
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  • Swá oft swá hý fyrdedon oððe tó gefeohte woldon, þonne offrodon hý heora lác,

    • Wlíst. 106, 28
      • .
used of a leader
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  • Fyrdode (mid fierde férde, v.l. /.) hé him tógeánes,

    • Chr. 835
      • ;
    • P. 63, 15
      • .

  • Ðá wearð se cyning swá gram ꝥ hé wolde eft in fyrdian, and þone eard fordón,

    • 948
      • ;
    • P. 112, 3a
      • .
of troops
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  • Wǽron on þǽre fyrde fela crístene menn . . . for þan þe hí sceoldon fyrdrian (fyrdian?) swá swá eall folc dyde,

    • Hml. S. 28, ii
      • .

  • Geánlǽhte Lisias fíf and sixtig þ úsenda fyrdendra þegena,

    • 25, 363.
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v.  fyrdrian firdrian.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “firdian.” 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/45009.

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