Gist-ærn, -ern
Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - gist-ærn, -ern
According to the Old English Dictionary:
- gist-ærn, -ern
- Take here gest-, gyst-ærn (-ern) in Dict., and add: I. a place of entertainment for strangers:--Gestærn diversorium, Wrt. Voc. ii. 25, 62. Eódon hí in sumes túngeréfan healle (giæstern, ) intrauerunt hospitium cujusdam uilici, Bd. 5, 10; Sch. 600, 7. II. a place of shelter:--Gewát sió lió út of þám scræfe . . . and hió unc forgeaf ꝥ gestern, Hml. A. 207, 407. gist-ærn