God-sibb

According to the Old English Dictionary:

god-sibb

Add: One who has become spiritually related to another (a baptized child or its parents) by acting as sponsor at baptism :-- Hine (Malcolm) slóh Moræl; sé wæs Melcolmes cynges godsib, Chr. 1093; P. 228, 9. Nán man on his godsibbe ne wífige (cf. Si quis commatrem spiritalem in conjugio duxerit, anathema sit, 20, 15. Si quis cum spiritali matre peccaverit, sicut superius dictum est, anathematizetur, 21, 17), Ll. Th. ii. 300, 15. [Cf. Icel. guð-sefi a godfather, guð-sifja a godmother.] god-sibb