Fægen
Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - fægen
According to the Old English Dictionary:
- fægen
- Add: , fagen glad. (1) absolute :-- Faegen conpos, Wrt. Voc. ii. 104, 73. Fægen voti compos, 124, 11. (2) with cause of gladness given, (a) in genitive :-- Hilarius nine underféng, fagen his cymes, Hml. Th. ii. 504, 19. Fægen (fagen, ) his gecyrrednysse, Hml. S. 26, 133. Fægen wǽron síðes, lungre leórdan, An. 1043. (b) in a clause :-- Hé wæs fægen ꝥ hé tó scypum ætfleáh, Chr. 1076; P. 211, 28. Wǽron þá burgware tó þon fægene and tó þon blíðe þæt hié feohtan móston, Ors. 5, 3 ; S. 222, 4. Weaxad hraðe feldes blóstman, fægen ꝥ hí móton, Met. 6, 10. (c) with gen. of pronoun and clause :-- Lyt monna weorð lange fægen ðæs ðe hé óðerne bewrencð few men are glad for long that they have tricked others, Prov. K. 34. Wǽron ealle þæs fægen þæt Drihten wolde him tó helpe hám gesécan, Sat. 435. v. feorh-fægen. fægen