Hold-scipe

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - hold-scipe

According to the Old English Dictionary:

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hold-scipe
m. Loyalty, fealty, allegiance :-- Eallra ðæra manna land hí fordydon ðe wǽron innan ðæs cynges holdscipe they destroyed the lands of all those men that were in allegiance to the king, Chr. 1087; Erl. 224, 15. Sægdon ðæt hí hit dyden for ðes mynstres holdscipe said that they did it on account of the loyalty of the monastery, 1070; Erl. 209, 15. hold-scipe
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