Burh-loca

Old English Dictionary Entry

Burh-loca

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: burg-loca, an; Related words:

Definitions

1 burh-loca

m. A cily-inclosure, city-barrier or defence, as -- a wall, mound or moat; urbis septum, arcis claustrum vel clausura :-- He gelǽdde brýd mid bearnum under burhlocan, in Sǽgor he led his wife with the children within the city-inclosure, into Zoar, Cd. 118; Th. 153, 12; Gen. 2537: Andr. Kmbl. 2132; An. 1067: Beo. Th. 3860; B. 1928. He nǽnige forlét under burglocan bendum fæstne he left not one under the city-barriers fast in bonds, Andr. Kmbl. 2075; An. 1040: 1879; An. 942. burh-loca

Runic Inscription

ᛒᚢᚱᚻ-ᛚᚩᚳᚪ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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