Þeóster-cofa

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - þeóster-cofa

According to the Old English Dictionary:

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þeóster-cofa
m. A dark chamber, used of the place where a person or thing is buried :-- Under neólum niðer næsse gehýdde in þeóstorcofan, Elen. Kmbl, 1662; El. 833. Ðæt heó ðis bánfæt beorge bifæste, láme bilúce líc orsáwle in þeóstorcofan, Exon. Th. 173, 29; Gú. 1168.

Related words: þeóster-loca. þeoster-cofa

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