The Meaning of Brosnung
FIRST POST
brosnung = one of my blogs / born today / a baby
meaning = f. decay, corruption, ruin. Æ.
( source = J. R. Clark Hall, A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary )
a word from the late West Saxon period / 10th - early 11th centuries / recorded by Ælfric of Eynsham or Ælfric the Grammarian - the why of the "Æ" in the definition
why did I name this blog BROSNUNG?
a brand for the things that rot and the things that stay / old and new stuff buried by the latest trends / vanished and survivors
a good precept for "modern times" from Ælfric of
Eynsham's The Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church
He does great evil who writes false, unless he correct it; it is as though he turn true doctrine to false error;
rampantly true / all around us
[ CONTEXT ] = brosnung / word / Old English / blog