Or-gilde

Old English Dictionary Entry

Or-gilde

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: Related words: ǽ-gilde. or-gilde

Definitions

1 or-gilde

adj. Unpaid for, applied to one for whom the wergild is not paid :-- Gif hine (the man who has broken his pledge, and will not submit to the penalty) mon ofsieá, licgge hé orgilde, L. Alf. pol. I; Th. i. 60, 15.

Runic Inscription

ᚩᚱ-ᚷᛁᛚᛞᛖ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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