Líc-tún

Old English Dictionary Entry

Líc-tún

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: es; Related words:

Definitions

1 líc-tún

m. An enclosure in which to bury people, a grave-yard, cemetery :-- Hí woldon ðæt heora líctún wǽre geseted cimeterium fieri vellent, Bd. 4, 7; S. 574, 37: Glostr. Frag. 8, 20. On ðæra bróðra líctune wæs bebyriged in cœmeterio fratrum sepultum est, Bd. 3,17; S. 543, 46: 4, 10; S. 578, 2, 17, 28: Chart. Th. 157, 23. Hé nǽfre binnan nánum gehálgodum líctúne ne licge let him never lie in a consecrated graveyard, L. Ath. i. 25; Th. i. 212, 20: L. C. E. 22; Th. i. 372 35. lic-tun

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ᛚᛁᚳ-ᛏᚢᚾ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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