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Asser's Life of King Alfred

Note 68 — Introductory material

Albert S. (Albert Stanburrough) Cook translation

‘Subarravit, formed from sub and arrha, represents literally the English verb wed, which refers to the giving of security upon the engagement of marriage.... [It] is glossed by beweddian in Napier’s Old English Glosses’ (Stevenson).

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