On-gyrdan

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - on-gyrdan

According to the Old English Dictionary:

on-gyrdan
to ungird a person, strip a person of a girdle or of what is girded on him :-- Hé ongyrde hine his swurde discinxit se gladio suo, Bd. 3, 14; Sch. 258, 23. Þá ongyrde óþer þegn þá fǽmnan, Shrn. 130, 29. [O. H. Ger. ant-gurten.]

Related words: un-gyrdan. on-gyrdan

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