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blanden-feax

  • adjective
  • participle
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blanden-feax, bionden-feax, -fex; adj.
[blanden; pp. of blandan to mix; feax, fex hair] Having mixed or grizzly hair, grey-haired, old; comam mixtam vel canam habens, senex. Blanden-feax is a phrase which in Anglo-Saxon poetry is only applied to those advanced in life; and is used to denote that mixture of colour which the hair assumes on approaching or increasing senility, Price's Warton i. xcvi. note 20
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  • Gelpan ne þorfte beorn blandenfeax [MS. blandenfex, col. 2] bilgeslehtes

    the grizzly-haired warrior ought not to boast of the clashing of swords,

    • Chr. 937
      • ;
    • Th. 204, 34, col. 1
      • ;
    • Æðelst. 45
      • .

  • Abraham ne wénde, ðæt him Sarra, brýd blondenfeax, bringan meahte on woruld sunu

    Abram thought not that Sarah, his grey-haired wife, could bring a son into the world,

    • Cd. 107
      • ;
    • Th. 141, 7
      • ;
    • Gen. 2341: 123
      • ;
    • Th. 157, 5
      • ;
    • Gen. 2600
      • :
    • Beo. Th. 3586
      • ;
    • B. 1791
      • .

  • Blondenfexa

    the grizzly-haired,

    • 5916
      • ;
    • B. 2962
      • .

  • Hruron teáras blondenfeaxum

    tears fell from the grizzly-haired [prince],

    • 3750
      • ;
    • B. 1873
      • .

  • Blondenfeaxe, gomele, ymb gódne ongeador sprǽcon

    the grizzly-haired, the old, spoke together about the good [warrior],

    • 3193
      • ;
    • B. 1594
      • .
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v.  blonden-feax.
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Citation

Bosworth, Joseph. “blanden-feax.” 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/4611.

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