Fird-tiber (?)

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - fird-tiber (?)

According to the Old English Dictionary:

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fird-tiber (?)
n. A sacrifice made when military operations were to be undertaken (?) :-- Hostia, proprie fyrdtimber (-tiber ?) hostia, properly speaking army-sacrifice [the glosser might have had the idea which is expressed in the following passage : Dysne yrming (Mars) wurðodon þá hǽþenan, and swá oft swá hý fyrdedon oððe tó gefeohte woldon, þonne offrodon hý heora lác tó weorðunge þissum gedwolgode, Wlfst. 106, 26], Wrt. Voc. ii. 43, 48. fird-tiber
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