Friþ-stów

According to the Old English Dictionary:

friþ-stów

Add: (1) in a personal sense, a refuge. Hé ys geworden friðstów (refugium) þearfendrä UNCERTAIN. Ps. Th. 9, 9 : 17, I. Beó mín friðstów, and gedó mé hálne esto mihi in locum refugii, ut salvum me facias, 30, 3. (2) in a technical sense, a place of safety for a criminal, an asylum, a sanctuary :-- Hé sceal fleón tó ánra ðára ðreóra burga ðe tó friðstówe gesette sint (the cities of refuge; civitates, quo possit evadere qui propter hornicidium profugus est, Deut. 19, 3) and libbe. Past. 167, 2. friþ-stow