Bryttas

Old English Dictionary Entry

Bryttas

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: Brittas, Brettas, Breotas, Brytas, Britas; Related words:

Definitions

1 Bryttas

pl. m. I. Britons; Britones :-- -Ǽrest wǽron búend ðyses landes Bryttas the first inhabitants of this land [England] were the Britons, Chr. Th. 3, 8, col. 1, 3. Mód and mægen Bryttas onféngon the Britons took heart and power, Bd. 1, 16; S. 484, 19: 1, 15; S. 483, 17. Ðætte Angel-þeód wæs gelaðod fram Bryttum on Breotone that the Angle-nation was invited by the Britons into Britain, 1, 15; S. 483, 2. II. Bretons; Armoricani :-- Ðý ilcan geáre fór se here of Sigene to Sant Laudan, ðæt is betweoh Brettum [Bryttum, col. 2, 3] and Francum in the same year the army went from the Seine to St. Ló, which is between the Bretons and the Franks, Chr. 890; Th. 160, 10, col. l. Hí speónan ða Bryttas heom to they enticed the Bretons to them, 1075; Th. 349, 26. bryttas

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Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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