Slaga

Old English Dictionary Entry

Slaga

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: an; Related words: ágen-, brððor-, fæder-, mǽg-, mann-, módor-, morþ-, morþor-slaga. slaga

Definitions

1 slaga

m. A slayer, homicide; interfector, percussor, lanio :-- Slaga lanio, Wrt. Voc. ii. 53, 36. Hú ne biþ hé swelce hé sié his slaga (mortis auctor), ðonne hé hine mæg gehǽtan and nyle ? Past. 38, 4 ; Swt. 275, 9. Gif man þeóf geméte, and hé hús brece, and hine man gewundie, se slaga biþ unscildig, Ex. 22, 2. Se slaga (cf. ðæs sleges andetta, 29; Th. i. 80, 7), L. Alf. 30; Th. i. 80, 12. The procedure in cases of homicide is given L. E. G. 13; Th. i. 174, 15 sqq. , and L. Edm. S. 7; Th. i. 250, 12 sqq. Ic monnes feorh tó slagan séce, Cd. Th. 92, 7; Gen. 1525. Slagum interfectoribus, Engl. Stud. ix. 40, col. 1. Se Hǽlend miltsian wolde his ágenum slagum, H. R. 107, 5. [O. H. Ger. (man-)slago.]

Runic Inscription

ᛋᛚᚪᚷᚪ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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