Hláf-brytta

Old English Dictionary Entry

Hláf-brytta

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: an; Related words:

Definitions

1 hláf-brytta

m. One who distributes food to a household, a steward, cf. hláf-ǽta [cf. gleáw þeów þone geset hys hláfurd ofer his híred, ðæt hé him on tíde mete sylle, Mt. 24, 45] :-- Eádgifu gefreóde Ælfgiðe Birhsies dohtor hláfbryttan, C.D.B. iii. 537, 10; Cht. E. 255, 18. hlaf-brytta

Runic Inscription

ᚻᛚᚪᚠ-ᛒᚱᚣᛏᛏᚪ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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