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brýd-lác

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Wright's OE grammar
§608;
Dele 'A marriage gift or feast,' and add:
married state, wedlock
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  • Bærn né áteoriað on ðam brýdláce; þǽr is ... singallic wæstmbǽrnyss,

      Hml. S. 7, 61.
in pl. marriage ceremony, nuptials
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  • Is ǽlcum preóste forboden, þæt hí beón ne móton on þá wísan, þe hí ǽr wǽran æt þám brýdlácum, þǽr man óðre síðe wífað

    where a man marries a second time, priests are forbidden to attend in the way they did at the previous marriage,

      Wlfst. 304, 32.
  • Se cniht þá brýdlác geforþode

    the young man had the marriage ceremony performed,

      Hml. S. 34, 21.
Etymology
[v. N. E. D. bride-lock.]
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