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  • Éþl

    clima, i. plaga,

    • Wrt. Voc. ii. 131, 74
    • .
in connexion with human beings.
a person's native country, fatherland
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  • Ǽþel

    patria,

    • Wrt. Voc. i. 80, 40,
  • All lond ł oeðel

    omnis regio,

    • Mt. L. 3, 5
    • .
  • Þín wræcstów is þám monnum éþel þe þǽron geborene wǽran,

    • Bt. 11, 1
    • ;
    • F. 32, 28
    • .
  • Seó burg (Tyre) wæs on ǽrdagum heora (the Carthaginians') ieldrena éðel,

    • Ors. 4, 5
    • ;
    • S. 168, 11.
  • Þæt wíf wæs áfaren fram gemǽrum hire éðeles,

    • Hml. Th. ii. 110, 13
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  • Swá gemindige mínes gódes swá bið manna gehwilc metes and éþeles

    (of food and fatherland),

    • Lch. i. 384, 26
    • .
  • Hé bebeád þæt ǽlc þára þe on elðeódignesse wǽre cóme tó his ágnum earde and tó his fæder oeþle,

    • Ors. 5, 14
    • ;
    • S. 248, 24.
  • Hé wilnode tó hys éðle tó cumanne of his wræcsíðe,

    • Ps. Th. 41, arg.
  • In eard ł oeðel (oeþel, R.) his

    in patria sua,

    • Mt. L. 13, 57
    • .
  • In oeðel ł lond hiora

    in regionem suam,

    • 2, 12
    • .
  • Sume naman synd

    patriae,

    þá geswuteliað þæs mannes éþel,

    • Ælfc. Gr. Z. 13, 4
    • .
  • Ic hæfde bróþer and éðel on Egyptum,

    • Hml. S. 23 b, 324.
  • Ne cymst þú on þínne éþel ðonan þú férdest ǽr

    uiuus in patriam non reuerteris amplius,

    • Nar. 29, 12, 19
    • .
  • Ðá kyningas hiora onweald innanbordes gehióldon, and eác út hiora éðel gerýmdon,

    • Past. 3, 8
    • :
    • Vald. 1, 31
    • .
  • Alle oeðlas ðeóda

    omnes terrae gentium,

    • Ps. Srt. 21, 28
    • .
the land of the living, this world:
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  • On éþele ł earde lifigendra

    in regione uiuorum,

    • Ps. L. 114, 9.
an adopted country:
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  • [Mi]d elþeóde éðel healdan

    to settle in a foreign country,

    • Bo. 36.
fig.
proper condition:
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  • Ic ongeat ꝥ ðú wǽre út áfaren of þínes fæder éþele, ꝥ is of mínum lárum,

    • Bt. 5, 1
    • ;
    • F. 8, 29
    • .
used of heaven (or hell) as the home of man after death
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  • Ðæt wuldor ðæs úplican éðles,

    • Past. 159, 23
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  • Þæs heofonlican éþles,

    • Bl. H. 81, 30
    • :
    • 131, 15
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  • Wé sculon cuman of þisse worolde tó úres fæder oeðle, ꝥ is tó heofonríce,

    • Ors. 5, 14
    • :
    • S. 248, 28
    • .
  • Wé wǽron on þysne wræcsíþ sende, and nú eft sceolon óþerne éþel sécan, swá wíte, swá wuldor, swá wé nú geearnian willaþ,

    • Bl. H. 23, 6
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  • Þone écean éþel,

    • 209, 24
    • .
the land, abode of spirits.
of heaven
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  • Englas wiston ꝥ heora éþel þǽr on heofenum sceolde geseted weorþan mid hálgum sáwlum,

    • Bl. H. 121, 33
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  • Engla éðel,

    • An. 642
    • :
    • Cri. 630
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  • Gǽsta éþel,

    • 1407.
  • Wǽron gesóme þá þe swegl buán, wuldres éðel,

    • Gen. 83
    • .
of hell
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  • Atolan éðles,

    • Sat. 327
    • .
  • Ic móste in þeossum atolan oeðele gebídan,

    • 108.
used in poetry of the sea as the home of fishes or birds
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  • Fisces éðel,

    • Dóm. 39
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  • Ofer hwæles éðel.

    • Seef. 60
    • :
    • An. 274:
    • Edg. 48
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  • Mere sécan, mǽwes éðel,

    • Bo. 25
    • .
  • ¶ The Rune is used instead of the word, which is its name,
    • in Ors. 4, 5
    • ;
    • S. 168, 11
    • ,
    • and Vald. 1, 31
    • .
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