Bón

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - bón

According to the Old English Dictionary:

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bón
f. Ornament :-- Harold his heáfód þám kynge bróhte, and his scipes heáfod, and þá bóne (ornaturam, Fl. Wig. Plummer quotes the further description, 'Proram cum puppi pondus graue scilicet auri, Artificum studio fusile multiplies,' ii. 251) þér mid, Chr. 1063 ; P. 191, 16. [Cf. (?) Icel. búa to ornament; gull-búinn ornamented with gold.]

Related words: ge-bóned. bon

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