Scóh-wyrhta

Old English Dictionary Entry

Scóh-wyrhta

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: an; Related words: sútere. scoh-wyrhta

Definitions

1 scóh-wyrhta

m. A shoemaker. From the description of his work given by the sceówyrhta (sutor) in Ælfric's Colloquy, Thorpe, p. 27, he seems to have been a general worker-in leather. Besides boots and shoes he makes harness, leather bags and bottles :-- Facio calceamenta diversi generis, subtalares et ficones, caligas et utres, frenos et phaleras et flascones et calidilia, calcaria et chamos, peras et marsupia. [M. H. Ger. schuoch-wurhte.]

Runic Inscription

ᛋᚳᚩᚻ-ᚹᚣᚱᚻᛏᚪ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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