Lǽn-dagas

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - lǽn-dagas

According to the Old English Dictionary:

lǽn-dagas
pl. m. The days granted to a man in which to live, the time during which a man lives :-- Sceolde lǽndaga [MS. þend daga] æþeling ende gebídan worulde lífes the end of the days that had been granted, of life in this world, was to come upon the prince, Beo. Th. 4672; B. 2341. Swá sceal ǽghwylc mon álǽtan lǽndagas, 5175; B. 2591. Cf. lǽne. læn-dagas
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