Friþ-bræc

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - friþ-bræc

According to the Old English Dictionary:

friþ-bræc
Substitute :-- friþ-brǽc, -bréc, e; f. A breach of the peace concluded between two hostile peoples (English and Danes) :-- Gyf eahta men beón ofslagene, þonne is ꝥ friðbréc, binnan byrig oþþon búton . . . Be friðbréce binnan byrig. Gyf hit binnan byrig gedón bið, seó friðbrǽc, Ll. Th. i. 286, 25-30. [This is part of the arrangement (

Related words: friþ-mál) made by the English with the Danes under Anlaf.] friþ-bræc

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