Mann-dreám

Old English Dictionary Entry

Mann-dreám

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: es; Related words:

Definitions

1 mann-dreám

m. Human joy, joyous life among men, joyous noise :-- Ðú ne gemyndgast æfter mandreáme, ne wást bútan wildeóra þeáw thy mind shall not be according to human life, nor shall thou (Nebuchadnezzar) know aught but the habit of wild beasts, Cd. 203; Th. 251, 30; Dan. 37: Andr. Kmbl. 74; An. 37. Cain fág gewát mandreám fleón, Beo. Th. 2533; B. 1264. Lifde and lissa breác Malalehel mon-dreáma hér, Cd. 59; Th. 71, 26; Gen. 1176. Meodo heall moni g ᛗ dreáma full, Exon. 124 a; Th. 477, 14; Ruin. 24. Hé ána hwearf mondreámum from, Beo. Th. 3435; B. 1715. [Laym. Þa aras þe mondrem þat þe uolde dunede aȝen.] mann-dream

Runic Inscription

ᛗᚪᚾᚾ-ᛞᚱᛖᚪᛗ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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