Hȳr-mann

Según el Diccionario de Inglés Antiguo:

hȳr-mann

Add :-- A hireling, mercenary :-- Iōb cwæd : ' Mannes līf is campdōm ofer eordan, and swā swā mēdgildan dagas swā sind his dagas (sicut dies mercenarii, dies ejus. Job 7, 1)'. . . Se hȳrman his edleánes anbidad, Hml. Th. ii. 454, 31. 'Ǣnne man ic ofslōh of þīnre hīwrǣdene' . . . Wæs ān hȳrman tō wuda āfaren; sē læg gewundod, Hml. S. 31, 783. Symle sceal gōd scȳrman his hȳrmen scyrpan mid manunge, and him eác leánian be dām de hȳ earnian, Angl. ix. 260, 22. [N. E. D. hireman.] hyr-mann