Beám-sceadu

Old English Dictionary Entry

Beám-sceadu

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: e; Related words:

Definitions

1 beám-sceadu

f. A tree-shade, the shade of a tree; arborum umbra :-- Gewitan him ðá gangan under beámsceade then they retired under the tree-shade, Cd. 40; Th. 53, l0; Gen. 859. Hí slépon under beámsceade they slept under the tree-shade, Bt. Met. Fox 8, 55; Met. 8, 28. beam-sceadu

Runic Inscription

ᛒᛖᚪᛗ-ᛋᚳᛠᛞᚢ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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