Fel-tún

Old English Dictionary Entry

Fel-tún

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: es; Related words:

Definitions

1 fel-tún

m. An enclosed place, garden, privy, dunghill; secessus, latrīna, sterquĭlīnium :-- Se wisdóm and óðre cræftas licgaþ forsewene swá swá meox under feltúne wisdom and other virtues lie despised like dirt on a dunghill, Bt. 36, 1; Fox 172, 11. In feltún in secessu, Mt. Kmbl. Lind. 15, 17: Mk. Skt. Lind. 7, 29. In feltúne oððe mixen in sterquĭlīnium, Lk. Skt. Lind. Rush. 14, 35. fel-tun

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ᚠᛖᛚ-ᛏᚢᚾ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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