Wín-sele

Old English Dictionary Entry

Wín-sele

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: es; Related words:

Definitions

1 wín-sele

m. A wine-hall, a hall where there is feasting :-- Nis hér (in Hell) wloncra wínsele, ne worulde dreám, Cd. Th. 270, 21; Sat. 94. Se wínsele (Hrothgar's hall), Beo. Th. 1547 ; B. 771. In ðæm wínsele, 1394; B. 695. Beóre druncne . . . hí in wínsele sáwle forlétan, Exon. Th. 271, 25; Jul. 487: 283, 27; Jul. 686. Gesyhð on his suna búre wínsele wéstne, Beo. Th. 4903; B. 2456. [O. Sax. wín-seli.] win-sele

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ᚹᛁᚾ-ᛋᛖᛚᛖ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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