Birging

Old English Dictionary Entry

Birging

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: e; Related words: ll.

Definitions

1 birging

f. Tasting, taste :-- Byrgincg (gustus) swéte út ánýdde of neorxena wonge, Scint. 57, 2. Hnesce on æthrine and weredre on byrigincge (biriginge, byrincge, ), Lch. i. 108, 2. On byrgynge, 250, 22. and býrging (l. byrging) in Dict. birging

Runic Inscription

ᛒᛁᚱᚷᛝ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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