Teám-byrst

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - teám-byrst

According to the Old English Dictionary:

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teám-byrst
m. The failure to produce a geteáma in a suit. the stolen slave about whom the case had arisen) tó Æðelstáne; ða cende hé tém and lét ðone forberstan (he admitted having sold the slave to Wulfstan, but would not declare from whom he had obtained it) ... Ðá bæd Byrhferhð ealdor-mann Æðelstán his wer for ðam témbyrste, Chart. Th. 207, 4. team-byrst

Related words: teám, III. I :-- Ðá týmde Wulfstán hine (

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