Ag-lác

Old English Dictionary Entry

Ag-lác

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: æg-lǽc, es; Related words: ag. ag-lac

Definitions

1 ag-lác

n. [ag nequitia; lác ludus, donum] Misery, grief, trouble, vexation, sorrow, torment; miseria, dolor, tribulatio, molestia, tristitia, cruciatus :-- Of ðam agláce from that misery. Exon. 101 b; Th. 383, 7; Rä. 4, 7. Aglác dreóge I suffer misery, 127b; Th. 490, 5; Rä. 79, 6. Ðǽr hie ðæt aglác drugon where they suffered that torment, Cd. 185; Th. 230, 25; Dan. 238.

Runic Inscription

ᚪᚷ-ᛚᚪᚳ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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