Ge-sǽlan

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

According to the Old English Dictionary:

ge-sǽlan
to bind. Add: I. to bind a living creature. (1) with a material bond :-- Satan læg símon gesǽled (cf. rídeð racentan sal, 372), Gen. 765; (2) to restrain, confine with non-material bonds :-- Susie gesǽled, . . wttum gebunden, Jud. 114. II. to bind a thing, put a cord, chain, & c. , round an object, to secure by binding :-- Hé hét gebindan beam ǽrenum clammum and isernum and gesǽledne in susl don (clamavit: ' Germen radicum alligetur vinculo ferreo et aereo, '. Dan. 4, 12), Dan. 521. pǽr wæs helm monig . . . , earmbeága fela searwum gesǽled (ingeniously strung together?), B. 2764. ge-sælan
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