Gár-mitting

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - gár-mitting

According to the Old English Dictionary:

-mittung, e;

gár-mitting
f. A meeting of spears or javelins, a battle :-- Ðæt hí beadoweorca beteran wurdon, on campstede, cumbolgehnástes, gármittinge [gármittunge, Th. 207, 3, col. 2] that they were the better [the victors] in works of war, on the battle-field, at the conflict of banners, at the meeting of javelins, Chr. 937; Th. 207, 3, col. 1; Æðelst. 50. gar-mitting
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