Wic-weorc

Old English Dictionary Entry

Wic-weorc

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: es; Related words: 147, 26. v. Seebohm's English Village Community, s. v. week-work. wic-weorc

Definitions

1 wic-weorc

n. Weekly work, work done for the lord by the tenant so many days a week :-- On sumen lande is ðæt hé (the gebúr) sceal wyrcan tó wicweorc .ii. dagas swilc weorc swilc him man tǽcð ofer geáres fyrst ǽlcre wucan, and on barfest .iii. dagas tó wicweorce, and of Candel-mæsse óð Eástran .iii., L. R. S. 4; Th. i. 434, 5-8. Consuetudines in Dyddanhamme . . . Se gebúr sceal his riht dón; hé sceal erian healfne æcer tó wiceweorce . . ., Cod. Dip. Kmbl. iii. 450, 35. Cf. Hér synd gewriten ða gerihta ðe ða ceorlas sculan dón tó Hysseburnan . . . Hí sculan ǽlce wucan wircen ðæt hí man háte bútan þrím, án tó middanwintra, óðera tó Eástran, þridde tó gangdagan,

Runic Inscription

ᚹᛁᚳ-ᚹᛇᚱᚳ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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