Hoppe

Old English Dictionary Entry

Hoppe

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: an; Related words:

Definitions

1 hoppe

f. An ornament suspended from the neck, a bell [?] hung from a dog's neck :-- Hryðeres belle and hundes hoppe ǽlc biþ ánes scill. weorþ and ǽlc is melda geteald an ox's bell and that on a dog's collar, each is worth a shilling and each is reckoned an informer, L. Edg. H. 8; Th. i. 260, 16. Hie eall him gesealdon ðæt hie ðá hæfdon búton ðæt ǽlc wífmon hæfde áne yndsan goldes and án pund seolfres and ǽlc wǽpnedmon ǽnne hring and áne hoppan ita ut nihil præter annulos singulos, bullasque sibi ac filiis, et deinde per filias uxoresque suas singulas tantum auri uncias, et argenti non amplius quam singulas libras relinquerent, Ors. 4, 10; Swt. 196, 21. -hoppe,hoppe

Runic Inscription

ᚻᚩᛈᛈᛖ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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