mǣg-lagu, f.n: law regulating the duties and responsibilities of kinsmen, e.g. in the matter of paying or receiving certain parts of the wergild (‘man price’) if one of their number slew or was slain. (MAG-lah-goo)

fregen-seldlic, adj: very strange, very wonderful. (FRAY-yen-SELD-lich)

bēcnan, wk.v: to indicate, denote, signify. (BAKE-nahn)

dwæscan, wk.v: to extinguish, put out. (DWASK-on)

Croesus kneels in a fire which is extinguished by the rain pouring from a cloud above. John Lydgate’s translation of Boccaccio’s The Fall of Princes. SE England (probably Suffolk, possibly Bury St Edmunds), c. 1450-c. 1460. British Library, MS Harley 1766, f. 133r. [bl.uk]

ge-liþewācian, wk.v: to render gentle, soften a person; to mitigate, soften the rigour of misery, pain, etc. (yeh-LITH-eh-WOCK-yawn)

ōr, n: beginning, origin; front. (OR)

hlutor, adj: clear, pure, bright, sincere. (HLUH-tor)

gran-wisc, n: chaff (the husks of grains and grasses separated from the seed in threshing). (GRON-wish)

hǣmed-gemāna, m.n: matrimony, marriage. (HAM-ed-yeh-MAH-na)

hēah-seld, n.n: a throne. (HAY-ah-seld)

Look at how great King David’s throne is! Fieschi Psalter. Cambrai, c. 1290-1295. Baltimore, Walters Art Museum, W.45, f. 90v. [thedigitalwalters.org]