Scír-geréfa

Old English Dictionary Entry

Scír-geréfa

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: an; Related words: Stubbs' Const. Hist. i. 113 ; Kemble's Saxons in England, bk. ii. c. v. The word glosses

Definitions

1 scír-geréfa

m. A shire-reeve, sheriff', 'the judicial president of a shire.' preses in Wrt. Voc. i. 18, 11. (1) of a secular official, III :-- Ælfnóþ scírgeréfa, Chr. 1056; Erl. 190, 29. Án scíregemót sæt æt Ægelnðþes stáne . . . ðǽr wæs Bryning scírgeréfa, Cod. Dip. Kmbl. iIV :-- Ðonne sceall Cristes scírgeréfan (the bishop) ðæt witan, and ymbe ðæt dihtan and déman, swá swá béc tǽcan, L. I. P. 25; Th. ii. 340, 8. scir-gerefa

Runic Inscription

ᛋᚳᛁᚱ-ᚷᛖᚱᛖᚠᚪ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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