Gyrwas (-an)

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - gyrwas (-an)

According to the Old English Dictionary:

Gyrwas (-an)
Add; The people of the fen district, which contained twelve hundred hides, six hundred in each of its two divisions, v. l. ) lande in regione Gyrviorum, Bd. 4, 6; Sch. 381, 19. On þǽre stówe þe is genemned Crúland ; þæt mynster is on middan Gyrwan (Girwan, v. l.) fænne (Crowland is called elsewhere 'Monasterium Gyruensis', Chr. P. ii. 37), Guth. Gr. 176, 2. v. gyru. gyrwas -an

Related words: Norþ-, Súþ-Gyrwas :-- On Gyrwan (Gyrwa,

Back