Glíw-mann

Old English Dictionary Entry

Glíw-mann

Old English Dictionary Entry

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1 glíw-mann

Take here gleó-mann in Dict., and add:--Glígman parasitus (cf. glíwere), Hpt. Gl. 504, 20. Glígmanna yppe orcestra vel pulpitus, Wrt. Voc. i. 39, 36. Suá micle méde . . . suá wé habbað ðæs hleahtres, ðonne wé hliehað glígmonna unnyttes cræftes. Wé herigað hira cræftas, and ðeáh nyllað hí habban sic eis virtutum sanctitas sicut stultis spectatoribus ludicrarum artium vanitas placet. Illi aurigarum et histrionum gesta favoribus efferunt, nec tamen tales esse desiderant, Past. 231, 7. Þurh witige plegmen l gleáwe glígmen per gymnosophistas, An. Ox. 39. Swá hweorfað gleómen geond grunda fela . . . simle sumne gemétað gydda gleáwne, Víd. 136. [King Blæðgabreat . . . ne cuðe na mon swa muchel of song . . . gleomen him weoren deore, Laym. 7004. Þar was gleomenne song, þar was piping among, 5109.] gliw-mann

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Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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