Hȳþ-gild

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - hȳþ-gild

According to the Old English Dictionary:

hȳþ-gild
Substitute: A festival held at a harbour in honour of the god of harbours :-- Hȳdgylda portunalia (spurcas caeremonias exhibentes, aut lupercalia celebrando, vel portumnalia perpetrando, Ald. 67, II), An. Ox. 4717.

Related words: hȳþ. hyð-gild,hyþ-gild

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