Carcern-weard

Old English Dictionary Entry

Carcern-weard

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: es; Related words:

Definitions

1 carcern-weard

m. A prison-warder, jailor :-- Hé wæs on carcern sænded . . . , and æfter twelf dagum cóm se carcernweard, Shrn. 54, 13, 16. Scs Arthemius wæs ǽr carcernweard, 89, 23, 27. carcern-weard

Runic Inscription

ᚳᚪᚱᚳᛖᚱᚾ-ᚹᛠᚱᛞ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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