Þúsend-ealdor(?)

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - þúsend-ealdor(?)

According to the Old English Dictionary:

þúsend-ealdor(?)
a captain of a thousand men :-- Þúsendealdo&r-tilde;&m-tilde; (the o and r are on erasures, and between them a letter has been scratched out. Cf. þúsendealdremen, Hpt. Gl. 515, 76. Perhaps the gloss stands for þúsendealdre, þúsendmen (chiliarcho, An. Ox. 4747. þusend-ealdor

Related words: þúsend-mann)

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