Brunan burh
Brunanburh, about five miles south-west of Durham, or on the plain between the river Tyne and the Browney,
Entry preview:
Round the banner of Athelstan were ranged one hundred thousand Englishmen, and before them was the whole power of Scotland, of Wales, of Cumberland, and of Ireland under Anlaf, king of Dublin, led on by sixty thousand Northmen.
níd
necessity ⬩ inevitableness ⬩ necessity ⬩ need ⬩ urgent requirement ⬩ a necessary business ⬩ duty ⬩ need ⬩ what one wants ⬩ necessity ⬩ need ⬩ difficulty ⬩ hardship ⬩ distress ⬩ force ⬩ compulsion
Entry preview:
Gl. 412, 57. need, what one wants Ðæt man underfó máre ðonne his líchaman neód sý, Homl. Th. ii. 590, 21.
þolian
Entry preview:
</b> to suffer, undergo, submit to discipline, treatment :-- Se ðe ðysne lǽcedóm þolaþ, Lchdm. i. 300, 20. Ðæt wíf ðe on blódryne wæs fram manegum lǽcum fela þinga þolode, Mk. 5, 26. Tó ðolienne ðínne willan, Ps. C. 90. <b>I b.
tún
Entry preview:
Ethb. 17; Th. i. 6, 16. where there were many dwellings, a manor, vill, 'an estate with a village community in villenage upon it under a lord's jurisdiction,' v. Seebohm's English Village Community, c. v.
Linked entry: bold
ge-reccan
Entry preview:
[Passages 1. 2, and 4 might be taken under ge-rǽcan; <b> I. 4.</b>]
ge-cýþan
Entry preview:
Þæt þé gecýðe cyning ælmihtig hord under hrúsan, El. 1091. ¶ used intrans. to appear. Cf. æt-íwan :-- Andrea, arís, and gecýð (St.
Linked entry: cýþan
folc-land
the land of the folk or people
Entry preview:
Under this denomination are comprised three distinct imposts, to which all landed possessions, not excepting those of the church, were subject, viz [a] Brycg-bó;t for keeping the bridges, and highways in repair.
lád
excuse
Entry preview:
The accused might clear himself by his own oath, supported by the oaths of a certain number of compurgators, or he might undergo some form of ordeal. The lád varied with the character of the deed with the commission of which the accused was charged.
Linked entry: ládian
þurh-teón
to carry through ⬩ get a proposal accepted, a request granted ⬩ to carry out a plan, orders, etc. ⬩ give effect to an intention ⬩ to carry through ⬩ carry on to a (successful) end ⬩ to accomplish ⬩ perform ⬩ to perpetrate ⬩ to carry on ⬩ continue ⬩ to bring to a successful issue ⬩ to achieve ⬩ bring about ⬩ bring to pass ⬩ to afford ⬩ to go through ⬩ undergo ⬩ to draw ⬩ drag
Entry preview:
Ben. 85, 18. to go through, undergo Swá swá wíf ácenþ beam and þrowaþ micel earfoþu æfter ðam ðe heó ǽr micelne lust þurhteáh, Bt. 31, 1; Fox 112, 3. Hefige geswincu wé þurhteón, ðæt wé tó heofenan ástígan magan, Scint. 101, 11.
sellan
Entry preview:
Hé sealde his folc sweordes under ecge, 77, 62. Ne syle mé tó ðara módes willan, 26, 14. Ne ðú mé ne syle on ðone biterestan deáþ, Blickl. Homl. 229, 26. Ne syle ðú mé in wíta forwyrd. Frag. Kmbl. 14; Leás. 9.
gán
to go ⬩ walk ⬩ to move along, proceed ⬩ to take a specified course ⬩ to be guided ⬩ determined ⬩ to be habitually in a specified condition ⬩ to go ⬩ be pregnant ⬩ to pass, elapse ⬩ to happen, come to pass, take place ⬩ to pass, be current ⬩ to be accepted ⬩ to have a specified issue ⬩ turn out so and so ⬩ to move away, depart ⬩ to relinquish ⬩ to take one's way, proceed ⬩ go ⬩ move in a specified direction ⬩ go ⬩ and ⬩ to apply ⬩ betake oneself ⬩ to turn ⬩ betake oneself ⬩ go ⬩ to be carried, moved, impelled ⬩ to pass, be paid, be allotted ⬩ to be appropriated ⬩ to be one of the constituent elements ⬩ be amongst the conditions requisite ⬩ to amount, be equivalent ⬩ to attain, reach, extend ⬩ to come ⬩ to take precedence of. ⬩ to produce, came out with ⬩ to accompany, be with ⬩ to be uttered ⬩ to begin, start ⬩ to go to the closet, have an evacuation ⬩ to leave a permanent habitation ⬩ occupation ⬩ to proceed to the business of a court
Entry preview:
Gif wé willað áreccan ealle ðá gewitnyssa . . . þonne gǽð þǽr swíðe micel hwíl tó, 18, 11. to amount, be equivalent to xv. pund wætres gáþ to sestre, Lch. ii. 298, 26. to attain, reach, extend Se rodor gǽð under ðás eorðan ale swá deóp swá bufan.
teám
A line; but the word which is used in the related dialects (v. infra) with a physical meaning is used in English figuratively. ⬩ a line of descendants, offspring, progeny, family, children ⬩ bringing forth children, child-bearing ⬩ a line of animals harnessed together, a team
Entry preview:
Drauh togedere al þene team under þe moder, A. R. 336, 15. Wurrþenn wiþþ childe, and tæmenn hire tæm, Orm. 2415. Ys foure sones ... Þys was a stalwarde tem, R.
Linked entries: teám-byrst tém wróht-getíme ge-teáma -tíme -tíme
sculan
Entry preview:
Ne scyle nán mon blǽcern ǽlan under mittan, 5, l; Swt. 43, 2.
self
Entry preview:
Under ðam sylfum norþdǽle middangeardes sub ipso septentrionali vertice mundi, Bd. 1. 1; S. 473, 29. Ic tó sylfum Drihtne cleopode. Ps. Th. 54, 16. Ðæt ða sylfan ýþa wǽron áhofene ofer ðæt scip, Blickl. Homl. 235, 6.
hwá
Entry preview:
L. 8, 18 ( 4 a), and all the passages under 1, V. 7. To these may be added Ne rǽdde gé ꝥ hwæt (the later version has, Ne rédde gé hwæt ...) Dauid dyde nec hoc legistis quod fecit Dauid, Lk. 6, 3
byrgen
Entry preview:
H. 83, § 6; Th. i. 591. during the time that the dead body remained unburied, the relations and friends assembled to watch or wake over it [this watching or waking is mentioned under the word líc a body, see líc II.] and this proceeding was evidently
on-fón
Entry preview:
</b> to allow to come, not to exclude :-- Hié sprǽcon ðæt hit betere wǽre þætte Rómáne eft heora cynecynne onféngen revocandorum in Urbem regum placito insimulatos, Ors. 2, 3 ; 8. 68, 9. add: to undergo a rite Hé fulwihte onféng, El. 192.
þegen
Entry preview:
Ic hæbbe þegnas (ðeignas, Lind.) under mé habens sub me milites, 8, 9. a follower of a great man, a retainer Þegn, gesíþa cliens, i. socius, Wrt. Voc. ií. 131, 70. Thegn, degn, þegn adsaeculam, Txts. 42, 101. Þegn, Wrt. Voc. ii. 4, 43.
Linked entries: þegen-boren þegen-líc þegin þén
wénan
to ween ⬩ suppose ⬩ think ⬩ imagine ⬩ opine ⬩ believe ⬩ to hope ⬩ expect ⬩ look for
Entry preview:
Unde plerumque contigit, ut, qui negligenter de se mala opinari permittunt . . . Past. 59; Swt. 451, 24-27.
swá
Entry preview:
See other instances under the pronominal forms. demonst. pron. Æt men fífténe peningas, and æt horse healf swá, L. Ff. ; Th. i. 224, 26.