Old English Dictionary Entry

Gyden

Part of speech: e;

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1 gyden

f: gydene, an; f. A goddess; dea :-- Iuno wæs swíðe heálíc gyden Juno was a very lofty goddess, Salm. Kmbl. 121, 32. Sceolde bión gydene was said to be a goddess, Bt. 38, 1; Fox 194, 19: Bt. Met. Fox 26, 105; Met. 26, 53. Óþ he gemétte ða graman gydena until he met the fierce goddesses, 35, 6; Fox 168, 24. Seó hæfde geháten heora gydenne Dianan ðæt heó wolde hiere líf on fǽmnháde alibban she had promised their goddess Diana that she would live her life in virginity; virgo vestalis, Ors. 3, 6; Swt. 108, 17. [Cf. Icel. guðja: O. H. Ger. gutin, gutenna: Ger. göttin.] gyden

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Runic Inscription

ᚷᚣᛞᛖᚾ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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Common Abbreviations

Ger.: German
Icel.: Icelandic
O. H. Ger.: Old High German

Works & Authors

Bt.: Boethius, De Consolatione Philosophiæ (OE translation by Alfred)
Fox: Fox, Samuel (Modern English translator of Boethius)
Met.: Metres of Boethius (OE poem)
Ors.: Orosius, Historiarum (OE translation by Alfred)
Swt.: Sweet's Anglo-Saxon Reader

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