Un-forboden

Old English Dictionary Entry

Un-forboden

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: Related words: 234, 20. Gebohte se arcebisceop æt Ælfhége ðæt land æt Sendan mid .xc. pundum, and æt Sunnanbyrg mid .cc. mancussan goldes, unbecwedene and unforbodene wið ǽlcne man tó ðære dægtíde; and hé him swá ða land geágnian derr, swá him se sealde ðe tó syllenne áhte, Chart. Th. 208, 38. un-forboden

Definitions

1 un-forboden

adj. Unforbidden, not prohibited, free from any moral or legal hindrance :-- Ðæt hí móston him beran unforboden flǽsc, Homl. Skt. ii. 25, 91. Swá ic hit hæbbe, swá hit se sealde, ðe tó syllanne áhte, unforboden (no one had a right to forbid the entering into possession of the property), L. O. 13; Th. i. 184, 5. Unforboden and unbesacan, Cod. Dip. Kmbl. i

Runic Inscription

ᚢᚾ-ᚠᚩᚱᛒᚩᛞᛖᚾ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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