Winter-dún

Old English Dictionary Entry

Winter-dún

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: e; Related words:

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1 winter-dún

f. A down or hill on which there is pasturage for sheep during the winter(?):--On manegum landum tilð bið redre ðonne on óðrum, ge yrðe tíma hrædra, ge mǽda rædran, ge winterdún (the sheep can be sent on to the hills earlier(?), cf. Sunt pascua ouium in meósdúne pertinentia ad Tangmere, Cod. Dip. Kmbl. iii. 373, 23) eác swá, Anglia ix. 259, 11. [Cf. Icel. vetr-beit winter-pasturage; vetr-hagi a winter-pasture.] winter-dun

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ᚹᛁᚾᛏᛖᚱ-ᛞᚢᚾ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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