Friþ-scipe

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

According to the Old English Dictionary:

friþ-scipe
Substitute: friþ-scip, es; n. A guard-ship (?), a ship on ike look-out for hostile vessels (?) :-- Of manegum landum máre (more than the trinoda necessitas) landriht áríst tó cyniges gebanne, swilce is . . . scorp tó friðscipe and sǽweard, Ll. Th. i. 432, 8. [Thorpe would read fird-scipe.] Cf. unfriþ-scip. friþ-scipe
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