Leger-bedd

Old English Dictionary Entry

Leger-bedd

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: es; Related words:

Definitions

1 leger-bedd

n. A sick-bed, bed of death, grave :-- Sum mǽden hé gehǽlde ðæt ðe langlíce læg on legerbedde seóc a maiden he healed that had long been confined to her bed by sickness, Homl. Th. ii. 510, 25. Árís nú and ber hám ðín legerbed, i. 472, 25. Ðæt ðú ðus láðlíc legerbed cure that thou shouldst choose so loathly a couch [the grave], Soul Kmbl. 307; Seel. 157: Wulfst. 187, 12. Sceal ðis sáwelhús legerbedde fæst wunian wælræste, Exon. 47 b; Th. 164, 2; Gú. 1005: Beo. Th. 2019; B. 1007. [O. Sax. legar-bed.] leger-bedd

Runic Inscription

ᛚᛖᚷᛖᚱ-ᛒᛖᛞᛞ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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