Beám-dún

Old English Dictionary Entry

Beám-dún

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: Beán-dúm, e; Related words:

Definitions

1 Beám-dún

f. BAMPTON, Devonshire; oppidum situm esse arbitror in agro Devoniensi, qua Somersætensibus adjacet, et vocari hodie Bampton, Gibson Chr. Explicatio, p. 14, col. 1 :-- Hér Cynegils and Cwichelm gefuhton on Beámdúne in this year Cynegils and Cwichelm fought at Bampton, Chr. 614; Th. 38, 38, cols. 2, 3. [beám a tree; dún a hill, down; collis stipitibus seu trabibus refertus, Gibson.] beam-dun

Runic Inscription

ᛒᛖᚪᛗ-ᛞᚢᚾ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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