Lísing

Old English Dictionary Entry

Lísing

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: es; Related words:

Definitions

1 lísing

m. A freedman :-- Lísingas and þeówe, Chart. Th. 592, 1. Búton ðam ceorle ðe on gafollande sit, and heora [the Danes] liésingum [lýsingum]; ða syndan efendýre, ǽgðer tó cc. scill., L. A. G. 2; Th. i. 154, 3. [Icel. leysingi, leysingr a freedman.] lising

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ᛚᛁᛋᛝ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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