Hád-bryce

Old English Dictionary Entry

Hád-bryce

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: Dele ' Related words: hád-bót. had-bryce

Definitions

1 hád-bryce

a violation of holy orders'. In 1. 4 after mǽðe add, swá be were swá be wíte swá be lahslite swá be ealre are (secundum omnia que habet malefactor. This is the rendering in the 'Instituta Cnuti', which gives the first clause of the law thus: Qnicnmque uiolauerit ordinem, sicut est aut monachum aut presbyterum aut aliquem ordinatum uerberauerit aut aliquid huiusmodi fecerit). For Swt. A. S. Rdr. 109, 148 substitute :-- Þurh hádbrycas, Wlfst. 164, 4: 130, 4.

Runic Inscription

ᚻᚪᛞ-ᛒᚱᚣᚳᛖ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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