Deór-ling

According to the Old English Dictionary:

deór-ling

Add: a (king's) favourite :-- Drihtnes deórling (dýr-, ) Benedictus, Gr. D. 176, 7. Dauide íǽm Godes dírlinge, Past. 393, 3. Dýrling, Hml. S. 6, 326. Leóf cyningc ... her syndon þe þíne deórlingas beón sceoldon, 23, 148. His (Godwin's) sunan wǽron eorlas and þæs cynges dýrlingas, Chr. 1052 ; P. 176, 24. Dýrlingas penates, Germ. 397, 448. Se wela þe hé (the king) gifþ his deórlingum, Bt. 29, 1; F. 102, 3. Hé (Nero) weorþode his deórlingas mid welum, 28 ; F. 100, 29. Sumne king and his deóHingas, Shrn. 200, 29. H as a nickname :-- Eádríc ealdorman and Ælmǽr Deórlingc (Dýrling, v. l.), Chr. 1016 ; P. 150, 3. deor-ling

Related words: l.