Sweord-fetels

Old English Dictionary Entry

Sweord-fetels

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: -fætels, es; Related words: fetel. sweord-fetels

Definitions

1 sweord-fetels

m. A sword-belt:?-Se cásere heora ǽlces sweordfætelsas hét forceorfan the emperor ordered the sword-belts of each of them to be cut, Homl. Skt. i. 23, 178. Cf. Ðat swerd on hundtwelftian mancusas and fóur pund silueres on þan fetelse, Chart. Th. 505, 32. Ðæs swurdes mid ðam sylfrenan hylte ðe Wulfríc worhte and ðone gyldenan fetels, 558, 12. [Cf. O. H. Ger. swert-fezzil faidilus, vagidilus: Icel. sverð-fetill a sword-belt.]

Runic Inscription

ᛋᚹᛇᚱᛞ-ᚠᛖᛏᛖᛚᛋ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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