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gid

  • noun [ neuter ]
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Grammar
gid, gidd, gied, giedd, gyd, gydd, ged, es; n.
a song, lay, poem; cantus, cantilena, carmen, poema
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  • Gid oft wrecen

    a song oft sung [recited],

    • Beo. Th. 2135
      • ;
    • B, 1065
      • .

  • Gidda gemyndig

    mindful of songs,

    • Beo.Th. 1741
      • ;
    • B. 868
      • .

  • Ðǽr wæs gidd and gleó

    there was song and glee,

    • Beo. Th. 4216
      • ;
    • B. 2105
      • .

  • Gliówordum gól gyd æt spelle

    sung in metre a lay in his discourse,

    • Bt. Met. Fox 7, 4
      • ;
    • Met. 7, 2
      • .

  • Geríseþ gleómen gied

    a song is proper for a gleeman,

    • Exon. 91 b
      • ;
    • Th. 344, 1
      • ;
    • Gn. Ex. 167
      • .

  • Cúþ gyddum

    known in lays [songs],

    • Beo. Th. 304
      • ;
    • B. 151
      • .

  • Se wítga song and ðæt gyd awræc

    the prophet sang and recited the poem,

    • Exon. 84 a
      • ;
    • Th. 316, 20
      • ;
    • Mód. 51
      • .

  • Ðæt ic ða ged ne mæg gefégean

    that I cannot compose the poems [songs],

    • Bt. Met. Fox 2, 10
      • ;
    • Met. 2, 5
      • .
as Old English or Saxon proverbs, riddles, and particular speeches were generally metrical, and their historians were bards, hence,
A speech, tale, sermon, proverb, riddle; sermo, dictum, loquela, proverbium, ænigma
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  • Gyd æfter wræc

    the speech afterwards recited,

    • Beo. Th. 4315
      • ;
    • B. 2154
      • .

  • Mæg ic be me sylfum sóþ gied wrecan

    of myself I can relate a true tale,

    • Exon. 81 b
      • ;
    • Th. 306, 2
      • ;
    • Seef. 1
      • .

  • On gewunon gyddes gehwyrfed

    in consuetudinem proverbii versum,

    • Bd. 3, 12
      • ;
    • S. 537, 27
      • .

  • On gydde

    into a proverb,

    • 3, 12
      • ;
    • 537, 30
      • .

  • Nú me ðisses gieddes onsware ýwe

    now shew me an answer of this riddle,

    • Exon. 114 a
      • ;
    • Th. 437, 28
      • ;
    • Rä. 56, 14. v. Grmm. D. M. 853
      • .
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Bosworth, Joseph. “gid.” 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/16986.

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