Swodrian

Old English Dictionary Entry

Swodrian

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: Related words: swaðrian, sweðrian. swodrian

Definitions

1 swodrian

p. ode To get drowsy, fall asleep:--Ic hnæppode and ic swodrode ego dormivi et soporatus sum, Ps. Spl. 3, 5. [In his chaire he sat longe . . . a lutel he bigan to swoudri as a slep him nome. Þo þoȝte him in his swoudringe þat a whit coluere com, L. S. 439, 268. Cf. A day as he wery was, and a suoddrynge him nome . . . Seyn Cutbert to him com, R. Glouc. 264, 22. Halliwell gives zwodder = drowsy, dull, as a West-country word.]

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ᛋᚹᚩᛞᚱᛁᚪᚾ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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