Rúm-heort

Old English Dictionary Entry

Rúm-heort

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: Related words: rúme, III :-- Se weg ðe tó lífe lǽt is ús tó gefarenne mid rúmheortum móde and mid gódum and glædum geþance

Definitions

1 rúm-heort

adj. I. of liberal heart, liberal, munificent :-- Rúmheort dapsilis, Wrt. Voc. ii. 27, 31. Rúmheort hláford (the Deity), Hy. 7, 63, Mé wine Scyldinga fela leánode . . . rúmheort cyning, Beo. Th. 4227; B. 2110 : 3602; B. 1799. Rúmheort beón mearum and máþmum to be liberal of gifts, Exon. Th. 3391; Gn. Ex. 87. II. with mind free from oppression, untroubled. dilatato corde curritur via mandatorum Dei, R. Ben. 5, 22. rum-heort

Runic Inscription

ᚱᚢᛗ-ᚻᛇᚱᛏ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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