Scip-gild

Old English Dictionary Entry

Scip-gild

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: es; Related words:

Definitions

1 scip-gild

n. A ship-tax, a tax to supply funds for the maintenance of a fleet:--Swá fela sýðe swá menn gyldaþ heregyld oððe tó scipgylde quotiens populus universus persolvit censum Danis, vel ad naves seu ad arma, Chart. Th. 307, 24. scip-gild

Runic Inscription

ᛋᚳᛁᛈ-ᚷᛁᛚᛞ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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