Freóls

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - freóls

According to the Old English Dictionary:

freóls
adj. Add: I. free. (1) of persons, not in bondage :-- Hé dide hine sylfne and his ofspreng ǽfre freóls and sacclés, Cht. Th. 628, 23. Ǽlc hláford his nýdþeówum byrge ... for ðám hí sýn Gode efenleófe and þá ðe syndon freólse. Ll. Th. ii. 314, 11. (2) of places, exempt from jurisdiction, &c. :-- Ic wille ðat ðat mynster ... beó swá freóls swá ǽnig óðer mynster is æt eallan þingan, C.D. vi. 203, 27. II. of a feast or festival :-- Búton dæg freóls hit beó nisi dies festiua fuerit, Angl. xiii. 374, 119. Freóls ǽnig dæg festiua aliqua dies, 389, 349. (Cf. dagum freóls diebus festis, 437, 1029.) Freólsne dæg diem festum, Ps. L. 75, 11. [Icel. frjáls free.] freols
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