Cyne-helm

Old English Dictionary Entry

Cyne-helm

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: -healm, es; Related words:

Definitions

1 cyne-helm

m. [helm a crown] A crown, diadem; corona, diadema :-- Cynehelm corona, diadema, Ælfc. Gl. 51; Som. 66, 14; Wrt. Voc. 35, 5: Morie B. 2166. Cynehealm diadema, Wrt. Voc. 74, 56. Wundon cynehelm of þornum, and asetton ofer hys heáfod plectentes coronam de spinis posuerunt super caput ejus, Mt. Bos. 27, 29: Jn. Bos. 19, 2, 5. Cynehelme corona, Mone B. 3019. For cynehelme for a royal diadem, Homl. Blick. 23, 34. cyne-helm

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Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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