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ALL WITNESSES ↗PERMANENT ATTESTATION RECORDWITNESS / 536
OBJECT
BEFORE
CLAIM.
THE PRIMARY OBJECT WAS NOT CHECKED.
Bosworth–Toller glosses the friends as arbitrators. The citation demonstrates a social and legal role without proving that every frēond was a formal arbitrator.
Old EnglishOld English law, source-reportedestablished
frēond
Laws of Æthelberht, friends arbitrate
“Ðǽr mótan freónd séman”
- WITNESS TYPE
- Source-reported corpus record
- YEAR
- Not fixed
- LOCATOR
- Laws of Æthelberht 65; Thorpe i.18:14
- REPOSITORY
- Not recorded
- SHELFMARK / OBJECT ID
- Not recorded
- FACSIMILE
- Not linked
- DIRECT INSPECTION
- No
- CONFIDENCE
- established
WORD DOSSIERfrēond ↗
CANONICAL FORM NODENODE 1311 ↗
01
BIBLIOGRAPHIC PROVENANCE
THE SOURCE BEHIND THE CLAIM
- TITLE
- An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online — freónd
- AUTHOR
- Joseph Bosworth · Thomas Northcote Toller · Christ Sean · Ondřej Tichy
- YEAR
- 2014
- PUBLISHER
- Faculty of Arts, Charles University
- SOURCE TYPE
- historical dictionary
- CITATION KEY
- bosworth-toller-freond