Brýd-lác

Secondo il Dizionario dell'Inglese Antico:

brýd-lác

Dele 'A marriage gift or feast,' and add: I. married state, wedlock :-- Bærn né áteoriað on ðam brýdláce; þǽr is ... singallic wæstmbǽrnyss, Hml. S. 7, 61. II. in pl. marriage ceremony, nuptials :-- Is ǽlcum preóste forboden, þæt hí beón ne móton on þá wísan, þe hí ǽr wǽran æt þám brýdlácum, þǽr man óðre síðe wífað where a man marries a second time, priests are forbidden to attend in the way they did at the previous marriage, Wlfst. 304, 32. Se cniht þá brýdlác geforþode the young man had the marriage ceremony performed, Hml. S. 34, 21. [N. E. D. bride-lock.] bryd-lac