Here-teám

Old English Dictionary Entry

Here-teám

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: es; Related words: here]:-- Se ðe hereteáme betogen sý

Definitions

1 here-teám

m. I. plundering, spoiling, devastation, taking fart in a 'here,' i. e, a predatory band of more than thirty-five members [he who is accused of taking part in a 'here,' L. In. 15; Th. i. 112, 2, MS. H. Heardlíc hereteám fierce devastation, Andr. Kmbl. 3100; An. 1553. II. what is got by an army, plunder, booty, spoil:-- Ðæs hereteámes ealles teóþan sceat a tithe of all the spoil, Cd. 97; Th. 128, 4; Gen. 2121. Gewát hám síþian mid ðý hereteáme ðe him se hálga forgeaf departed home with the spoil that the holy man gave him, 98; Th. 130, 19; Gen. 2162. here-team

Runic Inscription

ᚻᛖᚱᛖ-ᛏᛖᚪᛗ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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