Éðel-riht

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - éðel-riht

According to the Old English Dictionary:

-rieht, es;

éðel-riht
n. A land or country's right; patrium jus:-- Wǽron orwénan éðelrihtes they were hopeless of country's right, Cd. 154; Th. 191, 8; Exod. 211. Stód seó dýgle stów ídel and æmen éðelriehte feor the secret spot stood void and desolate, far from patrial-right, Exon. 35 b; Th. 115, 10; Gú. 187. DER. eard-éðel-riht. eþel-riht,eðel-riht
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