Folc-dryht

Old English Dictionary Entry

Folc-dryht

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: -driht, e; Related words:

Definitions

1 folc-dryht

f. [dryht, driht a multitude] A multitude of people, an assemblage; pŏpŭli multĭtūdo, cŏmĭtātus :-- Folcdryht wera bifóran before the assemblage of men, Exon. 23b; Th. 66, 5; Cri. 1067. Folcdriht, Cd. 64; Th. 76, 24; Gen. 1262. folc-dryht

Runic Inscription

ᚠᚩᛚᚳ-ᛞᚱᚣᚻᛏ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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