Hopp-scȳte
Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - hopp-scȳte
According to the Old English Dictionary:
- hopp-scȳte
- a coverlet (?). Substitute: hop-scīte (hopp-) a bed-curtain, and add :-- Heó (Judith) nam ꝥ heáfod and his hopscȳtan abstulit conopeum eius (cf. An. Ox. 7, 365 where conopeum, occurring in the story of Judith, is glossed by wáhreft. In the poem of Judith the word is rendered byfleóhnett, Jud. 47), Hml. As. III, 307. hopp-scyte