Wésten-setla

Old English Dictionary Entry

Wésten-setla

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: an; Related words:

Definitions

1 wésten-setla

m. A dweller in a wilderness, a hermit, an anchorite :-- Wéstensetla eremita, Wrt. Voc. i. 42, 28: 72, 2. Wéstensetla (printed -seda) eremita, anachoreta, Hpt. Gl. 465, 24. Sum wéstensettla on ðæm eálande ðe Liparus is nemned, Shrn. 85, 27. Wé willaþ wrítan be sumum wéstænsetlan (solitarius quidam), Homl. Ass. 195, 1. Óþer cyn is muneca, ðæt is wéstensetlan, ðe feor fram mannum gewítaþ, and wéste stówa and ánwunung gelufiaþ. . . Swilce wéstensetlan . . . on wéstenes wununge gelustfulliaþ, R. Ben. 134, 11-16. Óþer cyn is ancrena, ðæt is wéstensetlena, 9, 5. [O. H. Ger. wuostan-sedalo solitarius.] westen-setla

Runic Inscription

ᚹᛖᛋᛏᛖᚾ-ᛋᛖᛏᛚᚪ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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