Fóster-land

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - fóster-land

According to the Old English Dictionary:

fóster-land
Add: land assigned for the support of monks (ad cibum monachorum) [:-- Ich Æðelstán ... grantye ... .xxx. hýden on Sidemyntone tó fósterland, and tó at Chelmyntone, and six at Hylfelde, C.D.

Related words: 236, 10.] foster-land

Back