Port-geat
Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - port-geat
According to the Old English Dictionary:
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- port-geat
- n. The gate of a town :-- Portgeat porta, Wrt. Voc. i. 36, 37 : 84, 38. Fare ðæt wíf tó ðam portgate perget mulier ad portam civitatis, Deut. 25, 7, Ðá dá hé geneálǽhte ðam portgeate (cf. ðære ceastre gate, Lk. Skt. 7, 12), Homl. Th. i. 490, 30. Ðæt portgeat getácnaþ sum líchamlíc andgit ðe menn þurh syngiaþ, 492, 13. Hé ðaportgeatu ealle beeode, Homl. Skt. i. 23, 507. port-geat