Níd-þeówetling
Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - níd-þeówetling
According to the Old English Dictionary:
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- níd-þeówetling
- m. One who is forced into slavery (for an unsatisfied claim) :-- Hér kýð on ðissere béc ðæt Ælfríc wolde þeówian Putraele him tó nýdþeówetlinge (the enslavement was abandoned at the intercession of Bora, Ælfric's brother, on payment to Ælfric of eight oxen; Bora received sixty pence for his mediation), Chart. Th. 628, 11-26. nid-þeowetling