Firdian
Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - firdian
According to the Old English Dictionary:
- firdian
- Take here passages under flerdian, fyrdian, and add: Togo on an expedition, march, be on active service :-- Swá oft swá hý fyrdedon oððe tó gefeohte woldon, þonne offrodon hý heora lác, Wlíst. 106, 28. (1) used of a leader :-- Fyrdode (mid fierde férde, /. ) hé him tógeánes, Chr. 835 ; P. 63, 15. Ðá wearð se cyning swá gram ꝥ hé wolde eft in fyrdian, and þone eard fordón, 948; P. 112, 3a. (2) of troops:-- Wǽron on þǽre fyrde fela crístene menn . . . for þan þe hí sceoldon fyrdrian (fyrdian?) swá swá eall folc dyde, Hml. S. 28, ii. Geánlǽhte Lisias fíf and sixtig þ úsenda fyrdendra þegena, 25, 363. firdian