Líc-mann

Old English Dictionary Entry

Líc-mann

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: es; Related words:

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1 líc-mann

m. A person having to do with a corpse :-- Ealle ða líc-menn wurdon áfyllede mid ðam wynsumum stence, Homl. Th. ii. 98, 8: 334, 31. His líc læg ealle ða niht inne beset, ac hé árás of deáþe. Ða lícmenn ðá ealle flugon áweg, 348, 20: 548, 15. Ðá bær sum wuduwe hire suna líc tó bebyrgenne ... Seó dreorige módor mid ðám lícmannum hí ástrehte æt ðæs hálgan apostoles fótum ... Johannes ofhreów ðære méder and ðæra lícmanna dreórignysse, i. 66, 15-21. [Icel. lík-maðr.] lic-mann

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ᛚᛁᚳ-ᛗᚪᚾᚾ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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