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byrgen

  • noun [ neuter ]
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a burial-place
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  • Byrgen

    murilium,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 114, 43.

  • Byrigen monumentum vel

    sepulchrum,

    i.
      85, 77.

  • Seó hefige byrþen þǽre byrgenne,

      Bl. H. 75, 8.

  • Tó þǽre hálgan byrigene,

      Hml. S. 7, 291.

  • Nyman of þám byrgene þone arceƀ,

      Chr. 1023; P. 156, 10.

  • Ferede man ánes cnihtes líc tó byrgene,

      Hml. Th. i. 490, 31.

  • Of ðǽm byrgenne

    de monumento,

      Jn. L. 20, 2.

  • Tó ðǽm byrgenne

    ad monumentum,

    3.

  • Áne tóbrocene byrgenne, swelce hiera þeáw wæs þæt mon rícum monnum bufan eorðan of stánum worhte

    sepulchrum dirutum,

      Ors. 4, 10; S. 202, 4.

  • Ofer ryhtwísra monna byrgenne

    super sepulturam justi,

      Past. 327, 2.

  • Byrgenu openodon,

      Hml. Th. ii. 258, 4.
  • Gif man openað deáddra manna byrgynu, i. 256, 15.

  • Ne fyllað hié nó hús, ac byrgenna

    (tumulos),

      Past. 383, 36.
burial
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  • 'Þú gesettest ealle þíne apostolas tó mínre byrgenne'. . . Heó þǽm apostolum æteówde ealne hire gegyrelan þe heó wolde æt hire byrgenne habban,

      Bl. H. 143, 29-36.

  • Be his lífe and be his forðfóre and be his byr(i)geune

    (sepultura),

      Bd. 4, 3; Sch. 348, 14.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “byrgen.” 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/41230.

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