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gang-dagas

  • noun [ masculine ]
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gang-dagas, gong-dagas; pl. m. [dæg a day]
Perambulation days, the three days before Ascension day or Holy Thursday, Rogation days, when the boundaries of parishes and districts were traversed; dies perambŭlātiōnes vel processiōnis, rogātiōnum dies
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  • Betweox gang-dagum and middum sumera

    betwixt Rogation days and Midsummer,

    • Chr. 913
    • ;
    • Erl. 102, 3 : 1063
    • ;
    • Erl. 195, 7.
  • Ofer gang-dagas

    after Rogation days,

    • L. Ath. i. 13
    • ;
    • Th. i. 206, 15.
  • Ðys Gódspel sceal to Gang-dagon

    this Gospel must be on the Rogation days [Gang-days],

    • Rubc. Mt. Bos. 7, 7-14, notes, p. 575.
  • Ðis sceal to Gang-dagon ðæge twegen dagas,

    this [Gospel] must be on the two days of the Rogation days,

    • Rubc. Lk. Bos. 11, 5-13? notes, p. 578.
Etymology
[
Icel. gangdagar
.]
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