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Old English Dictionary Entry

Hláford-hyldo

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1 hláford-hyldo

f. -hyld, -held[?] m; or -hyldu, e; f. Fidelity to a lord, loyalty :-- Ac hí gecýðdon raðe ðæs hwylce hláford-hyldo hí þohton to gecýðanne on heora ealdhláfordes bearnum but soon after they shewed what kind of loyalty they intended to shew to the children of their late lord, Ors. 6, 37; Bos. 132, 23. Eall ðæt wé ǽfre for riht-hláfordhelde dóþ all that we ever do from true loyalty, L. C. E. 20; Th. i. 372, 10. hlaford-hyldo
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Runic Inscription

Runic Inscription

ᚻᛚᚪᚠᚩᚱᛞ-ᚻᚣᛚᛞᚩ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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L.
Latin

Works & Authors

C.
Corpus Christi College MS
Ors.
Orosius, Historiarum (OE translation by Alfred)
Th.
Thorpe, Benjamin (editor)
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