hrif-wund
- adjective
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Gif [hé] hrifwund [hrif wund, Thorpe] weorþeþ xii scill. gebéte. Gif hé þurhþirel weorþeþ xx scill. gebéte
if he be wounded in the belly let twelve shillings be paid. If he be run through let twenty shillings be paid
- [cf. the passage given in the note from Alamannic Laws,
'si in interiora membra transpunctus fuerit, quod hrefwunt
dicunt, cum xii sol. componat. Si transpunctusfuerit cum xxiv sol. componat.'
See, too,
- Graff. i. 897-8] ,
- L. Ethb. 61 ;
- Th. i. 18, 6.
Bosworth, Joseph. “hrif-wund.” 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/19766.
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