Targe

Old English Dictionary Entry

Targe

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: an; Related words: Cf.

Definitions

1 targe

f.: targa, an; m. A targe, small shield [apparently with the same development of meaning as rand, q. O. H. Ger. zarga costa (aheni) with the English word] :-- Ic geann Ælmére mínen discðéne mínes taregan, Cod. Dip. Kmbl. iii. 363, 12. Targa[n] parma, scuto, Hpt. Gl. 423, 50. Twá targan and twegen francan, Cod. Dip. Kmbl. iii. 304, 30. Targena peltarum, Hpt. Gl. 475, 64. [Icel. targa a small round shield. The word seems to have been taken into the Romance languages from Teutonic.]

Runic Inscription

ᛏᚪᚱᚷᛖ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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