Hrif-wund

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - hrif-wund

According to the Old English Dictionary:

hrif-wund
adj. Wounded in the belly :-- Gif [hé] hrifwund [hrif wund, Thorpe] weorþeþ xii scill. gebéte. Gif hé þurhþirel weorþeþ xx scill. gebéte if he be wounded in the belly let twelve shillings be paid. If he be run through let twenty shillings be paid [cf. the passage given in the note from Alamannic Laws, 'si in interiora membra transpunctus fuerit, quod hrefwunt dicunt, cum xii sol. componat. Si transpunctus fuerit cum xxiv sol. componat.' See, too, Graff. i. 897-8], L. Ethb. 61; Th. i. 18, 6. hrif-wund
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