Niht-sang

Old English Dictionary Entry

Niht-sang

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: es ; Related words:

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1 niht-sang

m. I. the service at the seventh of the canonical hours, compline :-- Nú gebyraþ mæssepreóstum ðæt hí ða seofon tídsangas gesyngon . . . nihtsang seofoþan, L. Ælfc. C. 19; Th. ii. 350, 3-7 : R. Ben. 40, 7. Hwænne wylle gé singan nihtsangc (completorium), Coll. Monast. Th. 34, 3. II. a copy of the service :-- Sind .ii. fulle sangbéc and .i. nihtsang . . . Hé ne funde ná má búton áne capitulare and .i. forealdodne nihtsang ... , Chart. Th. 430, 8, 28. [Icel, nátt-söngr.] niht-sang

Runic Inscription

ᚾᛁᚻᛏ-ᛋᚪᛝ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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