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gúþ-fana

  • noun [ neuter ]
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Wright's OE grammar
§617;
Add: and gúp-fan, es; n. (?) a flag, pennon
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  • (Constantine)

    mearcode on his gúðfanan hálig róde tácn,
      Hml. Th. ii. 304, 15.
  • Gúðfanan gelea[fa]n wé beorað

    vexillum fidei ferimus,

    Ps
      Srt. ii. p. 203, 23.
  • Beran þá gfiðfanan (vexilla) in on ðá ceastre, Prud. 74. ¶ in the following instances the form gúþ-fan ; n. seems to be used :-- Gúþfan

    labarum,

      An. Ox. 2130.
  • Sigefæst gúþfana

    uictricia uexilla,

    1746.
  • Segnes gúðfana

    labara,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 49, 74.
  • ii. mycele candelsticcan . . . viii. læflas and . ii. gúðfana, C. D. iv.
      275, 25.
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  • gúþ-fana, n.