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firding, (-ung).
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military operations, military service, fighting, marching
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  • Earfoðlic is tó átellanne seó gedrecednes and seó fyrdung and ꝥ geswinc,

    • Chr. 1056
      • ;
    • P. 186, 32
      • .

  • Menn wyrcað wíghús him (elephants) onuppan, and of ðám feohtad on heora fyrdinge.

    • Hex. 16, 12,

  • Beó ðé stille dæglanges ðínre fyrdinge

    stop your march for a day,

    • Hml. Th. ii. 482, 29
      • .

  • Geceás man þá twégen cnihtas . . . tó þǽre fyrdunga,

    • Hml. S. 30, 300,

  • Hí lágon úte on fyrdinge ongeán þone here,

    • Chr. 1006
      • ;
    • P. 136, 16
      • .
figurative:
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  • pá concurrentes gehwyrfað mid sóðre fyrdunge, ꝥ ys mid fullum gesceáde,

    • Angl. viii. 302, 30.
an expedition:
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  • Se cásere his fyrdinge geendode.

    • Hml. S. 28, 118
      • .

  • Fyrdincga

    expeditionum,

    • An. Ox. 825
      • .

  • Fyrdunga,

    • 2, 16
      • .

  • Fyrdunga áginne man georne þonne þearf sý for gemǽnelicre neóde,

    • Ll. Th. i. 382, i.
the right to compel service in the fird:
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  • Nán man ne haue nán onsting ne geold ne feording,

    • Chr. 975
      • ;
    • P. 36, 10
      • .]
militia, troops, armament, military forces
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  • Se here férde swá hé sylf wolde, and seó fyrding dyde þǽre landleóde ǽlcne hearm

    the Danes went as they pleased, and the English levies did their countrymen all kinds of damage,

    • Chr. 1006
      • ;
    • P. 136, 18
      • .

  • Eal seó fyrding tóhwearf

    all the troops dispersed,

    • 1094
      • ;
    • P. 229, 30
      • .

  • Sende se cyning heretogan mid mycelre fyrdinge,

    • Hml. A. 103, 46
      • :
    • 104, 55
      • .

  • 'Hæbbe hé mid him tó þǽre fyrdincge Jóhannem and Paulum . . . ' Se heretoga férde mid þǽre fyrdiucge,

    • Hml. S. 7, 313, 318
      • :
    • 28, 2
      • :
    • 18, 215, 397
      • .

  • Fyrdungce (ferdungc, Hpt. Gl. 512, 9)

    apparatu (duelli),

    • An. Ox. 4560
      • .

  • Fyrdinga

    cateruarum,

    • 5080.
Etymology
[v.
N. E. D. ferding.
]
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v. land-, scip-firding.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “firding.” 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/45010.

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