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sǽ-weard

  • noun [ masculine ]
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sea-ward, keeping watch and ward on the sea-coast; it was a duty that might be required in some cases of the thane and of the 'cotsetla'
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  • Of manegum landum máre landriht áríst tó cyniges gebanne . . . sǽweard (

    the section refers to the

    'thegen'),
      L. R. S. 1; Th. i. 432, 8.
  • Werige his (

    the 'cotsetla'

    ) hláfordes inland, gif him man beóde, æt sǽwearde, 3 ;
      Th. i. 432, 28.
  • Cf. the description of Beowulf's landing

    Ða of wealle geseah weard Scyldinga, se ðe holmclifu healdan scolde, etc. , Beo. Th. 463 sqq.

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