Bisceop-hám

Old English Dictionary Entry

Bisceop-hám

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: es; Related words: 219, 4. [Cf.

Definitions

1 bisceop-hám

m. An episcopal estate :-- Ic gean þes landes æt Hedhám ... intó Paulusbyrig æt Lundænæ tó bisceophámæ, Cht. Th. 520, 14. Tó biscopháme, 523, 23. On ǽlcon bisceopháme ǽlcon men freót þe wíteþeów wǽre, Cht. Crw. 23, 28. Sæ bisceop him dó hira fullan fóstær of his bisceophámum episcopus eos de suis propriis episcopalibus uillis pleniter pascat, C. D. the place-name Bispham.] bisceop-ham

Runic Inscription

ᛒᛁᛋᚳᛇᛈ-ᚻᚪᛗ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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