Rempan

Old English Dictionary Entry

Rempan

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: Related words: note. [Cf. Þei rempede þem to reste, Mand. (quoted by Stratmann).] rempan

Definitions

1 rempan

to go headlong (like an animal butting with its horns (?), cf. gerumpenu nædre coluber cerastes, Wrt. Voc. ii. 15, 68), be precipitate :-- Oft mon biþ suíðe rempende and rǽsþ suíðe dollíce on ǽlc weorc and hrædlíce and ðeáh wénaþ men ðæt hit síe for arodscipe and for hwætscipe saepe praecipitata actio velocitatis efficacia creditur, Past. 20, 1; Swt. 149, 12.

Runic Inscription

ᚱᛖᛗᛈᚪᚾ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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