Tow-cræft
Dictionnaire Anglo-Saxon de Bosworth & Toller - tow-cræft
Selon le Dictionnaire Anglo-Saxon :
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- tow-cræft
- m. Skill in weaving or spinning :-- Heó (the Virgin Mary) weóx and wearð fulfremed on gódra mægna heányssum, and heó ðá sóna gódum towcræftum onféng, swýðor ðonne ǽnig ðara ðe heora bearn wǽron , . . Heó wolde beón iram ðære þriddan tíde óð ða nigoþan tíd ymbe hyre webbgeweorc, Homl. Ass. 126, 339. Cf. 132, 545 sqq. According to the Protevangelion, when a new veil for the temple had to be made, it fell to Mary's lot to spin the true purple, c. ix. 4.