2 thoughts on “word-sāwere”

1. Hi, Hana

   I’m curious about today’s wordhord entry. What exactly was a word-sower – a story-teller, a missionary, a liar? Something else altogether?

   Regards Conor

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   • The word only appears once in extant Old English (a hapax legomenon). It’s in an OE translation of Gregory’s Pastoral Care, which says: Heton woroldwise menn wordsawere ðone æðelan lareow Paulus (Learned people called the noble teacher Paul a word-sower). According to Bosworth-Toller, the equivalent Latin word is seminiverbiits, but I could not find this in a Latin dictionary and don’t have a copy of the Latin text to confirm.

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