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hearga

  • noun [ masculine ]
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hearga, an; m.
[For pl. hearga; f. substitute:
a place sacred to a god, with an idol and an altar.
a grove
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  • Hearga

    lucum

    (the word occurs among glosses to Aldhelm between one on Ald. 50, 25 and another on 50, 27: in the text between these lucum does not occur),
    • Wrt. Voc. ii. 82, 81
      • :
    • 51, 26
      • .
of a building,
a temple, fane
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  • Se ylca hearg (hearh, here, v. ll.)

    fanum,

    • Bd. 2, 15
      • ;
    • Sch. 175, 5
      • .

  • Haerg

    lupercal (lupercal templum panos,

    • Ld. Gl. H. 22
      • , &
    • 27, 11
      • ),
    • Wrt. Voc. ii. 113, 28
      • :
    • 51, 25
      • .

  • Hearges

    sacelli,

    • 90, 20
      • .

  • Ðæs heáfodlican hearges

    capitolii,

    • 20, 38
      • :
    • 128, 46
      • .

  • Hearge

    Herculis (the gloss belongs to sacello, v. Herculis sacello,

    • Ald. 44, 28
      • .
  • In Hpt. Gl. 482, 37 the gloss is placed rightly:

    On hálierne ł hergan, temple

    sacello),

    • 81, 78:

    Herculus,

    • 43, 24
      • .

  • Herige, herge

    delubro, templo,

    • Hpt. Gl. 493, 37
      • .

  • Þæt hé becrupe on þæs Amones anlícnesse þe inne on þǽm hearge

    (templo)

    wæs,

    • Ors. 3, 9
      • ;
    • S. 126, 28
      • .

  • Haerga

    sacellorum,

    • Wrt. Voc. ii. 119, 51
      • .

  • Hergana

    sacellorum (sacellum templum idolorum),

    • Hpt. Gl. 451, 23
      • .

  • Templicre hærgana æfgælþe

    fanatica delubrorum superstitione,

    • 482, 27
      • .

  • Hergas

    fana,

    • Bd. 3, 30
      • ;
    • Sch. 331, 20
      • :
    • 333, 1
      • .
the part of a temple in which the altar and idol stood
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  • Hearh

    delubrum (Roma fregit delubra sacelli,

    • Ald. 151, 22
      • ),
    • An. Ox. 18 b, 21
      • .
the word occurs in place-names:
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  • In loco cuius uocabulum est Besingahearh,

    • C. D. v. 35, 17.

  • Bituih Gumeningahergae and Liddinge,

    • i. 142, 7.

  • In quattuor locis, id est, æt hearge . . . and æt geddincggum,

    • 282, 17
      • .
an idol
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  • Wæs gesewen átífred ealle ðá heargas

    (idola)

    . . . sió gítsung ðe Sc̃s Paulus cuæð ðæt wǽre hearga

    (idolorum)

    geféra,

    • Past. 157, 4-6
      • .

  • Hergas ðeóda

    simulacra gentium

    • Ps. Srt. 113, 4
      • .

  • Heargas hǽþenra ðeóda,

    • Ps. Spl. 134, 15
      • .

  • Herga

    simulacrorum, idolorum.

    • Hpt. Gl. 440, 63
      • .

  • In hergum heara

    in simulacris suis,

    • Ps. Srt. ii. p. 183, 29
      • .

  • Ꝥ hé þeówige unclǽnum deóflum, and þám unwittigum heargum,

    • Hml. S. 30, 52
      • .

  • Se hálga herigeas þreáde, deófulgild tódráf,

    • An. 1689
      • .
the word is also applied to a Christian temple
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  • Heargas

    fana (but Giles gives templa: Nescitis quod templa Dei sint ilia vestra,

    • Ald. 140, 19
      • ),
    • Wrt. Voc. ii. 89, 21
      • .
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Citation

Bosworth, Joseph. “hearga.” 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/52070.

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