Sæ-ríric

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - sæ-ríric

According to the Old English Dictionary:

sæ-ríric
a reed-bed in the sea (?), an ait; -- Swylce wórie bí ófre sondbeorgum ymbseald sǽrýrica mǽst, swá ðæt wénaþ wǽglíþende ðæt hý on eálond sum eágum wlíten (the reference is to the whale, which mariners mistake for an island), Exon. Th. 360, 24; Wal. 10. [Cf. O. H. Ger. rorahi arundinetum.] sæ-riric
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