Folc-sceaða

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - folc-sceaða

According to the Old English Dictionary:

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folc-sceaða
m. People's tyrant, villain; pŏpŭti tyrannus :-- Ðæs weorudes ða wyrrestan fá folcsceaðan feówertyne gewiton in forwyrd sceacan of the host the worst, hateful villains, fourteen departed into destruction, Andr. Kmbl. 3184; An. 1595. folc-sceaða
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