SELEDREORIG
Wild Word Friday!
Please don’t ask me how to pronounce it, but SELEDREORIG is an Anglo-Saxon word that means “sadness for the lack of a hall.” In Anglo-Saxon days, a hall was a long rectangular community building, usually made of timber and roofed with thatch. Most halls had a centrally located hearth. According to archaeologists, almost every Anglo-Saxon village had a hall.
The Anglo-Saxon peoples were of Germanic origin and migrated to England beginning in the 5th century A.D. As a language descriptor, Anglo-Saxon refers to the Ingvaeonic West Germanic dialects that eventually morphed into current-day English.
SELEDREORIG has no corresponding English word. Homeless is about as close as we get or perhaps homesick, but I’m guessing that the pride most of us feel in our hometowns, and the sadness we have to deal with when our hometown teams (or our NFL teams) suffer defeat are also close kin to the emotional components described by the ancient word SELEGREORIG.
Tell us about your home town. Large or small? Industrial or agricultural? Do you still live there?
Blessings!
Sue Harrison
(Some of the information contained in this post is from THE DISTANT HOURS by Kate Morton. Photo from Wikipedia.)
Sue, you are very familiar with my small, agricultural hometown 🙂
I loved growing up in a small town and can’t imagine being a child in a city. Of course, part of that was love of the era………growing up in the ’50’s and ’60’s was so much different than today no matter what size the town.
I so totally agree, Lynn! We grew up in a charmed time, so innocent and safe. I love our little town, too. So much love and caring in such a small community!