Eald-land

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - eald-land

According to the Old English Dictionary:

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eald-land
n. Old-land, land that has remained long untilled: (cf. old-land ground that has lain untilled a long time and is now ploughed up; arable land which has been laid down in grass more than two years. D.D.) :-- Feówer æceras be-westan exan fornágeán Eádferðes ealdlande, C.D. iii. 411, 28. eald-land
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