Pilegrim

Old English

Etymology

See pilegrim (“traveller, wanderer”).

Proper noun

Pilegrī̆m m (Late Old English)

  1. name or epithet in a list of witnesses
    • c. 1133, manumission, Cambridge University Library MS Ii.2.11[1]:
      Osbern Hod Pilegrim Ialebriht Gesfrei se coc ⁊ Pierres se niulier Ailric. ⁊ Gales
      Osbern(,) Hod, Pilegrim, Ialebriht, Gesfrei the cook and Pierres the wafer-baker, Ailric, and Gales[1]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Dickens, Bruce (1950), “The Beheaded Manumission in the Exeter Book”, in Cyril Fox and Bruce Dickens, editors, The Early Cultures of North-West Europe, pages 363-367

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