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læt

  • noun [ masculine ]
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Grammar
læt, es; m.
Wright's OE grammar
§57; §425; §446; §620;
One of a class that was inferior to that of the ceorl but above that of the slave. The word occurs only in the following passage
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  • Gif[man] læt ofslæhþ ðone sélestan lxxx scill. forgelde gif ðane óðerne ofslæhþ lx scillingum forgelde ðane þriddan xl scillingum forgelden

    if any one slay a 'læt' of the highest class, let him pay eighty shillings; if he slay one of the second, let him pay sixty shillings; let them pay for one of the third with forty shillings,

    • L. Ethb. 26
      • ;
    • Th. i. 8, 12-14
      • .
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See Stubbs' Const. Hist. s. v: Grmm. R. A. 305-309: Grff. ii. 190: Thorpe's Glossary: Kemble's Saxons in England, i. c. 8: Lappenberg's Hist. ii. 321.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “læt.” 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/21006.

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