For-healdan

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - for-healdan

According to the Old English Dictionary:

for-healdan
to withhold, keep back, disregard; detinēre, neglīgĕre, contemnĕre :-- Hæfdon hý forhealden helm Scylfinga they had disregarded the helm of the Scylfings [had deserted him], Beo. Th. 4751; B. 2381: Bt. 29, 1; Fox 102, 17. [Ger. ver-halten to reserve, withhold, conceal.] for-healdan
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