Wígbed-bót

Old English Dictionary Entry

Wígbed-bót

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: e; Related words:

Definitions

1 wígbed-bót

f. A fine paid to the bishop for the injury done to the church by doing wrong to one in holy orders :-- Gif man preóst gewundige, gebéte man ða wyrdlan, and tó weófodbóte for his háde sylle .xii. ór.; æt diácone .vi. ór. tó weófodbóte, L. N. P. L. 23; Th. ii. 294, 4-6. Gif man preóst ofsleá, forgilde man hine be fullan were, and biscope feówer and .xx. ór. tó weófodbóte; æt diácone .xii. ór. tó weófodbóte, 24; Th. ii. 294, 7-9. Gif hwá gehádodne man bende oððe beáte oþþe swýðe gebysmrige, béte wið hine swá hit riht sý, and bisceope weófodbóte be hádes mǽðe, L. C. S. 42; Th. i. 400, 23. In the laws of Henry I it is called emendacio altaris, II, 8; Th. i. 521, 7: 66, 3; Th. i. 569, 13. wigbed-bot

Runic Inscription

ᚹᛁᚷᛒᛖᛞ-ᛒᚩᛏ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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