Lyge-torn
Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - lyge-torn
According to the Old English Dictionary:
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- lyge-torn
- n. Feigned anger or grief[?] :-- Ne biþ cwénlíc þeáw ðætte freoþuwebbe feores onsæce æfter ligetorne leófne mannan it is no womanly fashion that a peaceweaver [woman] attack a loved man's life, having only a pretended cause for anger against him [? Thorpe reads lígtorn burning anger], Beo. Th. 3890; B. 1943. lyge-torn