Scild-truma
Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - scild-truma
According to the Old English Dictionary:
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- scild-truma
- m. A phalanx; testudo :-- Under þiccum scyld-truman subter densa testudine, Ælfc. Gr. 47; Som. 48, 29. Of sceltruman testudine, Hpt. Gl. 475, 66. [He makede his sceldtrume swulc hit weoren an hær wude. Laym. 16371. A scheltrone hec acies, Wrt. Voc. i. 240, 9.] scild-truma