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here-geatu

  • noun [ feminine ]
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here-geatu, gen. -geatwe; f.
military equipment
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  • Hí willaþ eów tó gafole gáras syllan ǽttrynne ord and ealde sword ða heregeatu ðe eów æt hilde ne deáh

    they will give you as tribute spears, the poisoned point and the swords they inherit, equipment for war that will not profit you in battle,

    • Byrht. Th. 133, 10; By. 48.

  • Heregeatewa, MS. A: heregeatowe, B. wægeþ

    it bears arms,

      Salm. Kmbl. 106; Sal. 52.

  • Ða beóþ mid gyldenum hyltsweordum and mid manigfealdum heregeatwum gehyrste

    septos tristibus armis,

    • Bt. 37, 1; Fox 186, 6
      • :
    • Bt. Met. Fox 25, 17; Met. 25, 9.
as a technical term, heriot. The amount of the heriot for various ranks is given
  • L. C. S. 72; Th. i. 414, 4-20;
further mention is also made in
  • L. C. S. 71; Th. i. 412, 26-414, 2
    • :
  • 74; Th. i. 416, 3-18
    • :
  • 79; Th. i. 420, 13-17.
The word also occurs in the following passages in wills,
  • Chart. Th. 499. 29
    • :
  • 512, 16
    • :
  • 540, 5
    • ;
  • 550, 28
    • :
  • 573, 3.
For the origin and nature of the heriot see Stubbs'
  • Const. Hist. s.v. Kemble's Saxons in England, ii. 98.
Etymology
[Cf.
  • Grmm. R. A. 372-3
.]
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Bosworth, Joseph. “here-geatu.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/18882.

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