Gild
Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - gild
According to the Old English Dictionary:
- gild
- Add: I. payment, (1) of purchase or barter :-- Hwælc seleþ monn geld for ferh his quam dabit homo commutationem pro anima sua?, Mt. R. 16, 26. (2) pay of troops :-- Eádwerd cing scylode .ix. scypa of māle . . . and belifon .payment exacted (a) by the State, a tax :-- Ālēde Eádweard cyng ꝥ heregyld . . . ꝥ gyld gedrehte ealle Engla þeóde . . . ꝥ wæs ǣfre ætforan ōdrum gyldum þe man geald, Chr. 1052; P. 173, 18-22. Þe cyng behēt heom þā betsta laga . . . and ǣlc unriht geold hē forbeád, 1087; P. 223, 32. (b) by the law as compensation or indemnity for loss :-- Nordleóda cynges gild is .xxx. þūsend þrymsa, fīftēne þūsend þrymsa bid þæs wergildes, .xv. þūsend þæs cynedōmes, Ll. Th. i. 186, 2. Ðeáh æt stæltyhtlan lād teorie . . . gylde āngyldes ꝥ hē mid belēd wæs. Ðæs ōdres gyldes nān þing, ne þæs wītes þe mā, 354, 16. Gif mon wīf mid bearne ofsleá . . . forgielde þone wīfman fullan gielde, and ꝥ bearn healfan gelde, 66, 24-68, 2. Ne forlǣte hē þā ǣscan . . . oþ þæt wē tō þām gilde cuman, 234, 27. Gylde hē ꝥ yrfe, oþþe . . . underwed lecge . . . and þǣs on .ix. nihton ꝥ wed undō mid rihtan gylde, 352, 10. ꝥ man gulde ꝥ ceápgild, and swinge hine man þriwa, oþþe ꝥ ōder gild (gylde, v. l.) sealde, 208, 23. Gif wē þonne gyld ārǣrdon, 234, 5. (c) by a superior foreign power, tribute :-- Cunnende of gyld (cf. gild-selen) [d]æs cǣseres geselenne temtantes de reddendo caesaris tribute. Mk. p. 4, 20. II. that which takes the place of something lost :-- Seth wæs Abeles gield on woruldrīce, Gen. 1109. On wrādra gield, 101. III. in a religious sense, (1) what is offered, (a) concrete, an offering, a sacrifice :-- Hié Drihtne lāc brōhton; brego engla beseah on Abeles gield eágum sīnum, Gen. 977. Hē þæt gyld (cf. lāc, 1497) on þanc āgifen hæfde, 1506. Geld hostiae, sacrificia, Wülck. Gl. 202, 27. (b) abstract, worship, rite, service, sacrifice :-- Æt dām gilde Luperc[a]lia, Wrt. Voc. ii. 86, 27. Gield cultum, 90, 27. Gild, 19, 24. Geld ceremoniae, UNCERTAIN. 28, 54: ceremonie, i. ritus sacrificandi, religiones, sacrificia, Wülck. Gl. 202, 27. Þā þe æt þǣm geldum þǣr wæs swīn and sceáp and fearsuovetaurili(a), Wrt. Voc. ii. 31, 33: 86, 33. Hwæder þā landleóde crīstene wǣron de hī on hǣdenra gildum (in hǣdennesse gedwolum, v. l.) lifdon (paganis erroribus essent inplicati). Bd. 2, l ; Sch. 109, 22. Gield sacra (Deorum destruxit), Wrt. Voc. ii. 90, 7. (2) a divinity, heathen deity :-- Behātad þæt gē wyllad þām deófolgyldum widsacan, and þone sōdan God wurdian. . . . ' Beó Godes grama ofer ūs, gif wé ǣfre tō hǣdenum gylde būgad, ' Hml. Th. ii. 488, 7. Gield numina, Wrt. Voc. ii. 86, 34: 92, 80. Gild, 60, 70. (2 a) an idol :-- Gield dilubra, Wrt. Voc. ii. 94, 34: 27, 23. Hē þā īdlan gild bræc, Bl. H. 223, 18, l. IV. a guild, v. ge-gild :-- Hēr is on þīs gewrite siú geswitelung þǣre gerǣd-nisse þe þiús gefērrǣden gerǣd hæfþ on þegna gilde on Grantebrycge, Cht. Th. 610, 29. Se gylda þe ōderne misgrēt innan gylde, 606, 23. v. blōstm-, brōþor-, ceáp. , cyne-, ge-, geleger-, here-, hȳd-, hȳþ-, īdel-, nīd-, niht-, scip-gild. gild