Lid-wiccas

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - lid-wiccas

According to the Old English Dictionary:

Lid-wícingas;

Lid-wiccas
pl. The people of Brittany [or using the name of the people for the country] Brittany :-- Carl féng tó eallum ðam westríce ... bútan Lidwiccium Charles took all the western kingdom ... except Brittany, Chr. 885; Erl. 84, 13. Two other MSS. have Lidwícingum, Th. 154, 155, and this form occurs in the Scop's Tale :-- Ic wæs mid Lidwícingum, Exon. 86 a; Th. 323, 17; Víd. 80. Micel sciphere com súþan of Lidwicum, Chr. 910; Erl. 101, 32. Lidwiccum, 918; Erl. 102, 22. The word seems to contain the British name for Armorica, Llydaw.

Related words: notes to the passages from the Cod. Exon. and from the Chron. 918. lid-wiccas

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