Scild-hreóða
Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - scild-hreóða
According to the Old English Dictionary:
-hréða, an ;
- scild-hreóða
- m. Shield-covering, (1) a shield, buckler: -- Scinon scyldhreóðan, Cd. Th. 184, 26 ; Exod. 113. (2) the arrangement of shields as in the scild-burh, q. testudine, Wrt. Voc. ii. 96, 31. Sumum wíges spéd giefeþ æt gúþe, ðonne gárgetrum ofer scildhreádan (-hreoðan?) sceótend sendaþ (cf. the passage under scild-weall). Exon. Th. 42, 19; Cri. 675. v. bord-hreóða, and cf. hréðan melote, Wrt. Voc. ii. 56, 63. scild-hreoða,scild-hreoþa