Tún-scipe

Old English Dictionary Entry

Tún-scipe

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: es; Related words:

Definitions

1 tún-scipe

m. The inhabitants of a tún:--Cýþe hé hit ðonne hé hám cyme; and gif hit cuce orf biþ mid his túnscipes gewitnysse on gemǽnre lǽse gebringe. Gif hé swá ne déð ǽr fíf nihtum, cýþan hit ðæs túnes men ðam hundredes ealdre, L. Edg. S. 8; Th. i. 274, 26. Hé hét ðone túnscipe eallne ofsleán and ðone tún forbærnan mittens occidit vicanos illos omnes, vicumque incendio consumpsit, Bd. 5, 10; S. 625, 1. [Gif twa men oþer iii coman ridend to an tun, al þe tunscipe flugæn for heom, Chr. 1137; Erl. 262, 35.] tun-scipe

Runic Inscription

ᛏᚢᚾ-ᛋᚳᛁᛈᛖ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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