Heáfod-leahter

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - heáfod-leahter

According to the Old English Dictionary:

heáfod-leahter
Add: , a deadly sin :-- Sceolon crístene men ðá eahta heáfodleahtras oferwinnan . . . Se forma heáfodleahter is gýfernyss . . . eahteoða módignyss. Þás eahta heáfodleahtras geniðeriað þá unwǽran intó hellewíte, Hml. Th. ii. 218, 16-24: Hml. S. 16, 267: Hml. A. 76, 101. Cf. heáfod-synn; heáfod-mægen. heafod-leahter
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