Be-birgan

Old English Dictionary Entry

Be-birgan

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: -birigan; Related words: be-byrgan. be-birgan

Definitions

1 be-birgan

p. de; pp. ed To bury; sepelire :-- Mín fæder me byd ðæt ic hine bebirgde pater meus adjuravit me, ut eum sepelirem, Gen. 50, 5 : 50, 6. He hine bebirigde he buried him, Ælfc. T. Grn. 6. 2. Hine bebirgdon sepelierunt eum, Gen. 50, 13. Bebirged sepultus, 50, 14. Ðǽr wæs Isaac bebirged, and ðǽr líþ eác Lia bebirged ibi sepultus est Isaac, ibi et Lia condita jacet, 49, 31.

Runic Inscription

ᛒᛖ-ᛒᛁᚱᚷᚪᚾ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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