,
_encircling
ornament like a diadem_: instr.
Beowulf
: āgend-, līf-, sin-frēa.
frēa-dryhten, st.
m.
, _lord, ruling lord_: gen.
sg.
frēa-drihtnes, 797.
frēa-wine, st.
m.
, _lord and friend, friendly ruler_: nom.
sg.
frēa-wine
folces (folca), 2358, 2430; acc.
sg.
his frēa-wine, 2439.
frēa-wrāsn, st.
f.
,
_encircling
ornament like a diadem_: instr.
pl.
helm
.
.
.
befongen frēawrāsnum, 1452; see wrāsn.
freoðu, friðu, f.
, _protection, asylum, peace_: acc.
sg.
wēl bið þǣm þe mōt
.
.
.
tō fæder fæðmum freoðo wilnian, _who may obtain an asylum in God's
arms_, 188; nēan and feorran þū nū [friðu] hafast, 1175.
--Comp.
fen-freoðo.
freoðo-burh, st.
