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Bryten

  • noun [ feminine ]
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Bryten, Bryton, Briten, Breoten, Breoton, Broten, Brittan, Britten, Brytten; gen. dat. acc. e; f. acc.
also as nom. BRITAIN; Britannia, Cambria
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  • Brytene ígland is ehta hund míla lang

    the island of Britain is eight hundred miles long,

      Chr. Th. 3, l, col. l: 3, 10, col. I. 3.
  • Syxtigum wintrum ǽr ðam ðe Crist wære acenned, Gaius Iulius, Rómána cásere [MS. kasere], mid hund-eahtatigum scipum, gesóhte Brytene

    sixty years before Christ was born, Caius Julius, emperor of the Romans, with eighty vessels, sought Britain,

      Chr. Th. 5, 17-21, col. 3, 1. 2.
  • Breoton [Brytene C] is eálond ðæt wæs iú geára Albion háten

    Britain is an island that was formerly called Albion,

      Bd. l, l; S. 473, 8: 2, l; S. 501, 10.
  • On Bretone

    into Britain,

      Bd. 1, 15; S. 483, 2.
  • Bryten, acc. Exon. 45 b; Th. 155,

      5; Gú. 855.
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v.  Breoten Breoton Breten Briten Broten Bryt-land Bryton Brytten.
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