Gealg-mód

Old English Dictionary Entry

Gealg-mód

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: galg-mód, gealh-mód; Related words:

Definitions

1 gealg-mód

adj. [gealg = gealh sád; mód mind] Sad in mind, gloomy, furious; tristis anĭmo, furiōsus :-- Gealgmód guma the furious man, Exon. 73 b; Th. 274, 10; Jul. 531 : 74 b; Th. 278, 15; Jul. 598. Hie eágena gesihþ aguton gealgmóde gára ordum they, furious, thrust out the eyesight with javelins' points, Andr. Kmbl. 63; An. 32 : 1125; An. 563. gealg-mod

Runic Inscription

ᚷᛠᛚᚷ-ᛗᚩᛞ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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