Sige-wang

Old English Dictionary Entry

Sige-wang

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: es ; Related words:

Definitions

1 sige-wang

m. A plain where victory is won, a glorious plain. (1) where actual fighting has taken place :--Se mǽsta dǽl ðæs heriges læg on ðam sigewonge, Judth. Thw. 25, 36. (2) where actual fighting is not referred to, a place in which evil is overcome :--Smeolt wæs se sigewang (the place where St. Andrew's heathen enemies had been overwhelmed), Andr. Kmbl. 3160 ; An. 1583. Smylte is se sigewong (cf. ðæt torhte lond, l. 19, wlitig is se wong eall, 198, 8, the dwelling-place of the Phenix), Exon. Th. 199, 29 ; Ph. 33 : 146, 23 ; Gú. 714. Mennisce áras on ðam sigewonge (Guthlac's dwelling-place) helpe gemétton, 157, 18 ; Gú. 893. sige-wang

Runic Inscription

ᛋᛁᚷᛖ-ᚹᚪᛝ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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