Land-mearc

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - land-mearc

According to the Old English Dictionary:

e;

land-mearc
f. Boundary of an estate or of a country :-- Seó landmearce líþ of Terstán upp be Hohtúninga mearce, Cod. Dip. Kmbl. iii. 189, 5. Londmearce neáh near to the land's boundary, Exon. 75 a; Th. 280, 27; Jul. 635. [O. H. Ger. lant-marcha funiculum.] Cf.land-gemǽre, -gemirce. land-mearc
Back