Bí-gengestre

Old English Dictionary Entry

Bí-gengestre

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: an; Related words:

Definitions

1 bí-gengestre

f. A female attendant, worshipper :-- Bígengestre cultrix, i. inserviens, Wrt. Voc. ii. 137, 46. Bígengcestre, An. Ox. 4431. Bígengestran, þénestran cultricem, i. ministram, 1358: 2065. bi-gengestre

Runic Inscription

ᛒᛁ-ᚷᛖᛝᛖᛋᛏᚱᛖ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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