Scírig-mann

Old English Dictionary Entry

Scírig-mann

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: es; Related words: The form occurs only in one (Kentish) charter, where 'Wulfsige preóst se scírigmann' is twice mentioned, Cod. Dip. Kmbl. vi. 127, 128. In a later Latin version of this charter the term is rendered

Definitions

1 scírig-mann

m. Apparently the same as scír-mann, q. scírman and explained by judex comitatus, judex provinciae, Chart. Th. 275, 276, and in this sense it is taken by Kemble,

Runic Inscription

ᛋᚳᛁᚱᛁᚷ-ᛗᚪᚾᚾ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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