Tácn-bora

Old English Dictionary Entry

Tácn-bora

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: an; Related words: p. 12), Ap. Th. 27, 22. tacn-bora

Definitions

1 tácn-bora

m. I. a standard-bearer :-- Tácnbora signifer, vexillifer, Wrt. Voc. i. 35, 10: signifer, 84, 16. Tácenbora, Hymn. Surt. 113, 3. Tácnboran draconarii vel vexillarii vel signiferi, Wrt. Voc. i. 21, 66. II. a leader, guide, director :-- Ðis is mín tácenbora ðe mé getǽhte ðæt ic tó ðé becom (the word is used of the old fisherman who had directed Apollonius to the town,

Runic Inscription

ᛏᚪᚳᚾ-ᛒᚩᚱᚪ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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