Ge-hýdnes

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

According to the Old English Dictionary:

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ge-hýdnes
f. Comfort, security(?) :-- Ðýlæs hie gedwelle sió gehýdnes and ða getǽsu ðe hie on ðæm wege habbaþ lest the comfort and pleasures that they have on the way seduce them, Past. 50, 1; Swt. 387, 13; Hat. MS. See the note on this passage, Swt. 491-2. Or is the word connected with gehýdan? cf. gehýdan III. and the subsidia itineris of the original Latin. ge-hydnes
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