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crundel

  • noun [ masculine ]
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Grammar
crundel, crundol, crundul; gen. crundeles, crundles; dat. crundle, crundelle; m.
a barrow, mound raised over graves to protect them; tumulus
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  • On ðone durnan [MS. durnen] crundel; of ðam durnan crundelle on ðone þorn

    to the retired barrow; from the retired barrow to the thorn

    • Cod. Dipl. 1053
    • ;
    • A. D. 854
    • ;
    • Kmbl. v. 105, 26.
  • Ðonan on morþcrundle; of morþcrundle on ðone brádan herpæþ [MS. herpaþ]

    thence to the death-barrow [to the tumulus of the dead]; from the tumulus of the dead to the broad military road

    • Cod. Dipl. 543
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    • A. D. 968
    • ;
    • Kmbl. iii. 23, 34, 35.
  • Ðér þwyres ofer þrý crundelas

    there across over three barrows

    • Cod. Dipl. 985
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    • Kmbl. v. 13, 32.
in later times crundel is n:-[Kemble, in his Glossary Cod. Dipl. iii. pref. p. xxi, says, — 'It seems to denote a sort of water-course, a meadow through which a stream flows.' Yet the following example in this same vol. proves that a crundel could not be a meadow through which a stream flows, as it was on a hill
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  • On ðæt crundel

    to the barrow

    • Cod. Dipl. 1283
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    • Kmbl. vi. 120, 8.
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  • Cráwan crundul on Wereðan hylle

    Crow's crundle on Weretha's hill

    • Cod. Dipl. 698
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    • A. D. 997
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    • Kmbl. iii. 301, 35
  • Professor Leo says, — 'A crundel or crundwel is a spring or well, with its cistern, trough, or reservoir,' and cites, — Ðonon eft on crundwylle

    then again to crund-spring

    • Cod. Dipl. 1188
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    • Kmbl. v. 354, 20, 28.
    The crundle on Weretha's hill militates against Dr. Leo's view, as well as Kemble's; Mr. Thorpe therefore concludes, — 'My belief is, that the word is not Anglo-Saxon, nor Germanic, but British, and signifies a tumulus or barrow, and is akin to the Welsh carneddaw a cairn or heap of stones,'
    • Th. Diplm. Glossary, p. 654.
Derived forms
morþ-crundel, stán-.
Linked entries
v.  morþ-crundel.
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  • crundel, n.