Heals-mene

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - heals-mene

According to the Old English Dictionary:

heals-mene
Add; an ornament for the neck :-- Brýcð wíf healsmene utitur mulier anabola (ornamentum muliebre), Hpt. 31, 7, 91. Healsmyna frætewunge crepundiorum lunulas, An. Ox. 2203. Halsmenum, sweórbeágum lunulis, 1188. Menas gimbǽrum heal[s]mynurn crepundia (collo) gemmiferis lunulis (pendentia), 4828. heals-mene
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