Eard-wrecca

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - eard-wrecca

According to the Old English Dictionary:

-wreca, an;

eard-wrecca
n. [eard I. native country; wrecca=wræcca an exile] One banished from his native country, an exile; exsul:--Þurh eardwrecena feormunge by harbouring of exiles, L. Alf. pol. 4; Th. i. 62, 16, note 24. eard-wrecca
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