wræcsiþ

Old English

Etymology

From wræc (“exile”) +‎ sīþ (“journey”)

Noun

wræcsīþ m

1. foreign travel
2. exile
   • The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

     Ōsrēd, þe wæs Norþanhymbra cining, æfter wræcsīþe hām cumenum ġelǣht wæs ⁊ ofslagen on XVIII Kƚ Octoƀ ⁊ his līc liġþ æt Tīnamūþe. ⁊ Æþelrēd cining feng tō nīwan wīfe, sēo wæs Ælflēd ġehāten, on III Kƚ Octobr̃.

     Osred, who was king of Northumbria, was apprehended and slain on the 17th of October after coming home from his exile, and his body lies at Tynemouth. And King Aethelred took a new wife, whose name was Aelfled, on the third of October.

3. misery, wretchedness

Declension

Strong a-stem:

	singular	plural
nominative	wræcsīþ	wræcsīþas
accusative	wræcsīþ	wræcsīþas
genitive	wræcsīþes	wræcsīþa
dative	wræcsīþe	wræcsīþum

References

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “wræc-síþ”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎^[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.