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Old English Dictionary Entry

Brogdettan

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1 brogdettan

p. te. I. to shake, quiver :-- Brogdetteð vibrat, Txts. 107, 2132. Swá ꝥ wæs æteówed, ꝥ hé bródette byfiende mid wundorlicre styrunge ut apparuerit cancussione mirifica tremendo palpitasse, Gr. D. 166, 14. Þá ongan hé ofdrǽdd bifian and broddettan (forhtiende and brédetende, ) and clypian . . . Hí þone munuc cwakiendne and broddettendne (bród-, ) gelǽddon coepit ipse tremens et palpitans clamare . . . trementem et palpitantem monachum reduxerunt, 156, 13-21. Brogdetende vel cleppetende campus (can the English words be epithets applied to campus ( = aequor, cf. Corp. Gl. H. A. 314, aequor, pelagus vel campus) referring to the quivering of the surface of the water?), Txts. 49, 411. Brogdetende, brocdaettendi, brogdaethendi palpitans, 83, 1472. Bródetende, Wrt. Voc. ii. 67, 54. II. to glitter, be splendid (cf. brogdian) :-- Mid dislicum glengcgum brottetende (for form) stolidis pompis indruticans, Hpt. Gl. 435, 37. brogdettan
Runic Inscription

Runic Inscription

ᛒᚱᚩᚷᛞᛖᛏᛏᚪᚾ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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Abbreviations Used

Works & Authors

Gr.
Ælfric's Grammar
Voc.
Vocabulary
Wrt.
Wright, T. & Wülcker, R. P., Anglo-Saxon and Old English Vocabularies
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