Bosworth Toller's

Anglo-Saxon

Dictionary online

lád-teów

(n.)
Grammar
lád-teów, es; m.

A leaderguideconductorgeneral

Entry preview:

P. 5; Th. ii. 366, 4. Him ðá Rómáne æfter ðæm ládteówas gesetton, ðe hie consulas héton, Ors. 2, 2; Swt. 68, 2. Ealle míne ládþeówas ðe mec on swelc earfeðo gelǽddon locorum demonstratores qui nos in insidias deducebant, Nar. 16, 25. In Mt. Kmbl.

á-súrian

(v.)
Entry preview:

Voc. ii. 97, 27 : 5, 74. Gif men sié maga ásúrod, Lch. ii. 356, II. Add

Linked entry: súrian

feþer

a feathera winga penquill

Entry preview:

or is féþe plural of féþu q. v.?) alae, Wrt. Voc. i. 18, 32. a pen, quill Fiþere tácen is þæt þú geþeóde þíne þrí fingras tósomne swilce þú feþere hæbe . . . and styre þíne fingras swilce þú wrítan wille, Tech. ii. 128, 21.

Linked entries: fedes féþu

bed

Grammar
bed, bedd.

a bedcoucha surface on which something rests?

Entry preview:

Voc. ii. 15, 52, 53. Wolde beddes neósan gamela Scylding, B. 1791: Jud. 63. Bedde culcita, Wrt. Voc. ii. 91, 14. Ic árás of mínon bedde (lectulo), Coll. M. 33, 23. Swalt hé fǽringa on his bedde, Chr. 1054; P. 185, 29.

ǽwen-bróðor

Grammar
ǽwen-bróðor, l. ǽwen bróðor
Entry preview:

Voc. ii. 41, II

HUNGOR

(n.)
Grammar
HUNGOR, es; m.

HUNGERfamine

Entry preview:

Hér wæs se micla hungor on Angelcynne in this year was the great famine in England, Chr. 976; Erl. 127, 34. Hér on ðyssum geáre wæs se mycla hungor geond Angelcynn swilce nán man ǽr ne gemunde swá grimme, 1005; Erl. 139, 36.

ge-cyrran

(v.)
Grammar
ge-cyrran, p. de; pp. ed.

to turnconvertvertereconvertereto turn [one's self]goreturnvertirevertiire

Entry preview:

Homl. 85, 24; 57, 30; 59, 13. to turn [one's self], go, return; verti, reverti, ire Ic wille ðæt he libbe and to Gode gecyrran I will that he live and turn to God, Blickl. Homl. 97, 34; 101, 15. Gecyrraþ to me ðonne gecyrre ic to eów.

þreátung

(n.)
Grammar
þreátung, e; f.

compulsionforceviolenceoppressionill-treatmentrebukereproofthreatening

Entry preview:

compulsion, force, violence, oppression, ill-treatment. Similar entries v. þreátian, I Hí bestungon him on múþ mid niycelre ðreátunge ðone fúlan mete, Homi. Skt. ii. 25, 34.

á-bǽdan

Entry preview:

S. 23b, 130. where the object is something due, a tax, or the like Ic him álýfde alle nédbáde tuégra sceopa, ðá de ábǽdde beóð from ðaem nédbáderum, C. D. i. 114, 20.

ge-writ

(n.)
Grammar
ge-writ, es; n.

Something writtenwritingscriptureinscriptiona writinglettertreatisewritcharterbook

Entry preview:

Swá wítgan us on gewritum cýðaþ as sages tell us in books, 56 a; Th. 199, 24; Ph. 30: Elen. Kmbl. 1651; El. 827. We rǽdaþ on hálgum gewritum we read in holy writings, Homl.Th. ii. 356, 19. On gewritum in scripturis, Ps. Th. 86, 5.

Linked entries: ge-wreot writ

Cwén-land

(n.)
Grammar
Cwén-land, es; n.

Cwén-land lies between the White Sea [Cwén Sǽ] and Norway, north of the Gulf of Bothnia. The country east and west of the Gulf of Bothnia, from Norway to the Cwén or White Sea, including Finmark on the north. Malte-Brun says that the inhabitants of Cwén-land were a Finnish race. They were called Quaines, and by Latin writers Cayani. Gerchau maintains, in his history of Finland, 1810, that the Laplanders only were called Finns, and that they were driven from the country by the Quaines. 'They settled in Lapland, and on the shores of the White Sea, which derived from them the name of Quen Sea or Quen-vik.'. . . Adamus Bremensis happened to be present at a conversation, in which king Swenon spoke of Quen-land or Quena-land, the country of the Quaines, but as the stranger's knowledge of Danish was very imperfect, he supposed the king had said Quinna-land, the country of women or Amazons; hence the absurd origin of his Terra Feminarum, mistaking the name of the country with quinna a woman

Entry preview:

'They settled in Lapland, and on the shores of the White Sea, which derived from them the name of Quen Sea or Quen-vik.'. . .

drihten

(n.)
Grammar
drihten, gen. drihtnes, drihtenes ; m.

A ruler, lord, the Lord

Entry preview:

Ic eom Drihten ðín God ego sum Domĭnus Deus tuus, Ex, 20, 2. Þurh úrne Drihten Crist through our Lord Christ, L. Ælf. P. 39; Th. ii. 380, 3. On ðæm naman Drihtnes úres Godes in nomĭne Dŏmĭni Dei nostri, Ps. Th. 19, 7.

emn

(adj.)
Grammar
emn, adj.

Even, equal, plain, level, justæquus, plānus, æqualis

Entry preview:

Næs ic nǽfre swá emnes módes I was never of so even a mind. Bt. 26, 1; Fox 90, 25. Seó burh wæs getimbred on swíðe emnum lande the city was built on very level land, Ors. 2, 4; Bos. 44, 20: Past. 4, 2; Hat. MS. 10 a, 14.

Linked entry: tó-efnes

galdor

(n.)
Grammar
galdor, gealdor, es; pl. nom. acc. galdor, galdru; gen. galdra; dat. galdrum; n. [galan to sing, enchant, q. v.]

An incantationdivinationenchantmenta charmmagicsorceryincantātiocantiocarmenfascĭnātio

Entry preview:

Nis ðé ende feor, ðæs ðe ic on galdrum ongieten hæbbe thy end is not far off, from what I have understood by [thy] divinations, Exon. 50 a; Th. 174, 19; Gú. 1180. Ðás galdor mon mæg singan on wunde a man may sing these charms over a wound, L.

Linked entry: gealdor

irþ

(n.)
Grammar
irþ, e; f.

ploughingtillinga cropploughed land

Entry preview:

Kmbl. iii. 449, 32 where Kemble translates foryrþ 'the land which is first ploughed,' xlii

Linked entries: earþ ernþ

tǽcing

(n.)
Grammar
tǽcing, e; f.

the pointing out of a course to be followed, direction, teaching.teaching, doctrine

Entry preview:

Th. i. 168, 26. Gif hé be bóca tǽcinge his líf gefadige, L. Eth. ix. 28; Th. i. 346, 17. Gif hwá nelle bétan æfter mínra biscopa tǽcinge, Chart. Erl. 230, 22. Gode þeówian æfter Sanctus Benedictus tǽcinge according to the rule of St.

earm-lic

Entry preview:

Voc. ii. 83, 61. Earmlicne deáþ geðolian, Wlfst. 97, 5. expressing misery, piteous Wépendre stefne and earmlicre, Bl. H. 87, 27. pitiable, deplorable Sárlic tó cweþene, earmlic tó se[cganne] dolendum dictu, i. gemendum, An. Ox. 1730.

Cnut

(n.)
Grammar
Cnut, es; m.

Cnut was the Danish king of England for twenty-one years, from A. D. 1014-1035

Entry preview:

D. 1014-1035 Hér, on ðissum geáre, Swegen ge-endode his dagas to Candelmæssan iii n Feb'. And se flota ðá eal gecurón Cnut to cyninge here, in this year, A. D. 1014, Sweyn ended his days at Candlemas, on the 3rd of the Nones of February [Feb. 3rd].

fæðem

(n.)
Grammar
fæðem, es; m.

Bosom, lap sĭnus, grĕmium

Entry preview:

Bosom, lap; sĭnus, grĕmium In fæðem in sĭnu, Jn. Lind. War. 1, 18

ge-brosnodlíc

(adj.)
Grammar
ge-brosnodlíc, adj.

Corrupted

Entry preview:

Corrupted: Ðeós world is gebrosnodlíc this world is corrupted, Blickl. Homl. 115, 3