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Ahte ic fela wintra folgað tilne, holdne hlaford, oþþæt Heorrenda nu, leoðcræftig monn londryht geþah
Friday Poetry Blogging: Deor Heo 2006
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Ahte ic fela wintra folgað tilne, holdne hlaford, oþþæt Heorrenda nu, leoðcræftig monn londryht geþah
Archive 2006-05-01 Heo 2006
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“Lord” comes from the Anglo-Saxon hlaford, “loaf ward,” the master who supplies food; “lady” from hlaefdige, “loaf kneader,” the person whose retinue produces what her husband distributes; “companion” and “company” from the late Latin companio, or “one who shares bread.”
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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“Lord” comes from the Anglo-Saxon hlaford, “loaf ward,” the master who supplies food; “lady” from hlaefdige, “loaf kneader,” the person whose retinue produces what her husband distributes; “companion” and “company” from the late Latin companio, or “one who shares bread.”
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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Wat sceol se wrecce don. þe bufon iséȝð his hlaford þe he ȝegremed áfeð. under hi {m} helle muð open.
Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall
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Þa þis was iségd. þa were cofe abruden into þest {er} nesse. þe hi sturfe hungre. ⁊ se hlaford nam {w} iði {nne} to is frenden ⁊ et ⁊ dranc ⁊ macede hine wel bliðe mid his ` ⁊ þer hi hadden brad ⁊ win. ⁊ vii. sandon´.
Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall
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The _hlaford_ and his _hiredmen_ are an institution not only of private patronage, but also of police supervision for the sake of laying hands on malefactors and suspected persons.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 Various
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Þa hit þer to co {m}. þ̵ se hlaford in {} to þar halle come. mid his dierewur {ð} ȝeferede. mid ǽrlen ⁊ aldren. mid cn ` i´hten {20} mid þeínen. þa cweð se hlafor to his.
Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall
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Son [e] hi wrðeð abroden of his ȝesecþe. ⁊ þan sone geð se hlaford mid his frenden to his mete. þ̵ his to is esten. þe seið an þan hali write _Delicie méé sunt e {ss} e cu {m} filiis ho {minum} _. þat is.
Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall
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Þes king is ure hlaford almihti god þe is king ofer alle kingen. ⁊ hlaford ofer alle hlafordé.
Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall
chained_bear commented on the word hlaford
"Bread was the staple of the diet of the poor, growing coarser, darker and drier as it descended the social scale... By today's standards, vast quantities of bread were eaten: 4 pounds a day for the poor of all ages according to the canonised Bishop of Metz in his eighth-century Rule of Chrodegang. It was so much the staff of life that Old English words vibrate with its importance: the lord--hlaford--was literally the bread guardian or the bread-winner; the lady--hlafdige--was the bread-maker; and dependents--hlafaeta--were the bread-eaters."
--Kate Colquhoun, Taste: The Story of Britain Through Its Cooking (NY: Bloomsbury, 2007), 38
January 6, 2017