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folc-gestealla
/folkɣestæəla /*
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folc-gestealla
. Substitute: A comrade in arms (? cf. fyrd-gestealla) :-- Bigstandað mé strange geneátas, þá ne willað mé æt þám stríðe geswícan . . . hié habbað mé tó hearran gecorene . . . mid swilcum mæg man rǽd geþencean, fón mid swilcum folcgesteallan (= -um ?) with such may one devise counsel, take (counsel) with such comrades, Gen. 287.
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folc-gestealla
, -gestælla, an; m. A noble companion; gentis cŏmes, pŏpŭlāris :-- Mid swilcum mæg man fón folcgesteallan with such, one may obtain adherents, Cd. 15; Th. 19, 6; Gen. 287.
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