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mearc-beorh

  • noun [ masculine ]
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mearc-beorh, gen. -beorges; m.
A hill which forms part of a boundany
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  • Predicta tellus his terminis circumcincta.

    Ǽrest on æscwoldes hláw: ðonne on gemótbiorh ... ðonne on mearcbiorh,

    • Cod. Dip. Kmbl. ii. 195, 14.
  • Æt ðæne mearcbeorh,

    • iii. 175, 35.
  • Cf.

    gemǽr-beorh,

    • iii. 403, 27.
[Kemble says 'the mearcbeorh appears to denote the hill or mound which was the site of the mearc-mót.
  • 'Saxons in England, i. 56.
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