Cyne-hád

Old English Dictionary Entry

Cyne-hád

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: es; Related words:

Definitions

1 cyne-hád

m. [hád form, condition] A royal personage or condition, dignity, kinghood; regia persona vel dignitas :-- Ðæt se cynehád [MS. cynehade] ðæs hálgan weres éce gemynd hæfde ut regia viri sancti persona memoriam haberet æternam, Bd. 3, 11; S. 535, 30, note. Ic Ælfréd, gifendum Criste, mid cynehádes mǽrnesse, geweorþaþ hæbbe cúþlíce ongiten I Alfred, adorned, by the grace of Christ, with the dignity of a king have well perceived, Greg. Dial. MS. Hat. fol. 1, 1. cyne-had

Runic Inscription

ᚳᚣᚾᛖ-ᚻᚪᛞ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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