Fers
Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - fers
According to the Old English Dictionary:
- fers
- Add: I. a verse of poetry:--Engla sum . . . þás vers him mid gyldenum stafum áwritene on þám handum betǽhte . . . þǽra versa anginne þe benyðan þám forman verse stant, healfe þá vers gebyriað tó þám termene, Angl. viii. 325, 46-326, 10. II a. sentence, verse of the Bible:--Stynt on þǽre béc on þám forman ferse, Ælfc. Gen. Thw. 3, 4. Æt þám ferse þe man æfter gereorde cwið, R. Ben. 69, 16. Cweþe ǽrest þis fers, 'Deus in adiutorium meum intende,' 33, 8 (and often). [From Latin.]