Ge-dryhtu

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - ge-dryhtu

According to the Old English Dictionary:

ge-dryhtu
Substitute : ge-dryht, e; f. [es; n. ?]; pl. ge-dryhtu What is suffered, fortune, fate (cf. dreógan) :-- Gedrihtu elementa, i. fortune l sidera (the passage is: Cum figura mundi in ictu evanuerit, et enormia creaturarum elementa in melius commntata claruerint, Ald. 32, 34. For sidera as an alternative to elementa, cf. elementa sol et luna et reliqui planetae, Migne. Gedrihtu seems a rendering of fortune, cf. fortune, gewyrdes, 2628), An. Ox. 2371: 7, 145. Gedryhtu, 8, 119: Angl. xiii. 32, 110. ge-dryhtu
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