Græf

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - græf

According to the Old English Dictionary:

græf
Dele last passage, and add: I. a pit, place dug out. II. a grave :-- Græf sceal deadum men a grave is the place for a dead man, Gn. Ex. 149. On brádnysse scræfes, græfes in superficie antri, i. monumenti, An. Ox. 1889. Grafe, screafe eorþenum (cadavera) in cuniculo subterraneo (humata), 33, 11. Mín Drihten, sié þé þonc þæs þe þú léte þínne líchoman on græf álecgan, Angl. xii. 507, 8. Þeáh þe græf wille golde strégan bróðor his geborenum, Seef. 97. græf

Related words: hyl-, ísen-, stán-grsef.

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