Folgere
Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - folgere
According to the Old English Dictionary:
- folgere
- Add: (1) one who walks in the steps of another (lit. or fig.) :-- Oft cymð sé bæftan ús þe ús mid swyftnysse gódre drohtnunge fore-stæpð ; and wé earfoðlíce him filiað tó merigen, sé ðe nú tó dæg is úre folgere geðúht, Hml. Th. ii. 82, 19. (2) one who succeeds to the office of another, a successor :-- past gewinn betux Alexandres folgerum bella inter successores Alexandri, Ors. 3, II ; 148, 27. Þæt gewinn Alexandres folgera, S. 150, 27. (3) a follower, adherent, (a) of a prince :-- Ná má ne lifde þára þe Alexandres folgeras wǽron extinctis Alexandri ducibus, Ors. 3, ii; S. 152, 15. (b) of a teacher, example, opinion, &c. :-- Ðá wróhtgeornan sint tó manigenne dæt hié geðencen hwæs folgeras (seguaces) hié sindon, Past. 357, 16. Seó sóþe gesǽlþ mæg ǽlcum hire folgera sellan þurhwunigendne welan, Bt. 33, 3; F. 126, 12. (4) as a legal term, in contrast with heorþfæst man. [(pedisequam) fram him ápǽce for hǽmedþinge, Ll. Th. ii. 186, 22. [O.H.Ger. folgari sequester, sectator; folgara pedisequa.] folgere