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setl-gang

  • noun [ masculine ]
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setl-gang, es; m.
Setting of the heavenly bodies, generally of the sun,
marking time
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  • Ðá bád se sacerd sunnan setlgonges, forðon sunnan trió ágefeþ ondsware æt ðæm upgonge & eft æt setlgonge,

      Nar. 27, 15-18.

  • Sunne, setlgonges fús,

      Exon. Th. 174. 34; Gú. 1187.

  • Æfter sunnan setlgonge,

      Chr. 773 ; Erl. 52, 24.

  • Ǽr sunnan setlgange,

      Bd. 1, 27; S. 495, 7.

  • Æt sunnan setlgange,

      Blickl. Homl. 93, 16.

  • Sunne hire setlgang healdeþ

    sol cognovit occasum suum.

      Ps. Th. 103, 18.

  • Ðá se æþela glǽm setlgong sóhte, Exon Th. 178,

      32; Gú. 1253.
marking place,
the west
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  • Be ðam wege ðe líþ tó sunnan setlgange

    by the road that runs to the west,

      Deut. 11. 30.

  • Fram sunnan upgange óþ hire setl-gang

    from the east unto the west,

      Ps. Th. 49, 2.
Etymology
[Ps. setl-gang. Cf. O. H. Ger. sedal-gang : O. Sax. gangan, sígan te sedle, werðan an sedle (of the sun), v; Grmm. D. M. 700, R. A. 817.]
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Bosworth, Joseph. “setl-gang.” 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/27554.

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