What is the word?
What is the word? The first part is hegh (high) /if I understood correctly/
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Solution 1:
It looks like hegh-stald meaning virgin. It’s also spelled hægsteald, with the etymology reported by Revealing Words as:
the sense slips from Germanic roots of hag as enclosure or fence + steald as settlement or dwelling, to suppositions about a dependant young warrior or household retainer, hence unmarried and without his own household, to novice (tiro) and on to the religiously inflected celibate, and virginity.
See also
- A Compendious Anglo-Saxon and English Dictionary
- A Dictionary of the Anglo-Saxon Language