hand

Meaning

1. hand

   Metudes miltse, · þēah þe hē mōdċeariġ ġeond lagulāde · longe sċeolde hrēran mid hondum · hrīmċealde sǣ, wadan wræclāstas. · Wyrd bið ful ārǣd.

   A loner oft waits a grace for himself, Creator's mercy, even if he is sorrowful, through a sea-way he should for long stir the frost-cold sea with hands, travel paths of exile. Fate is well stalwart.

   Oft him ānhaga · āre gebīdeð,

2. side (of a conflict)

   ⁊ þȳ ilcan ġēare fōr Odda Rōmana cāsere tō Grēclande, ⁊ þā ġemette hē þāra Sarcena myċele fyrde cuman upp of sǣ, ⁊ woldon þā faran on hergoð on þæt Crīstene folc; ⁊ þā ġefeaht þā cāsere wið hī. ⁊ þǣr wæs myċel wæl ġeslæġen on ġehwæþere hand, ⁊ sē cāsere āhte wælstōwe ġeweald. ⁊ hwæðere hē þǣr wæs miċċlum ġeswenced, ǣr hē þanon hwurfe, ⁊ þā hē hāmweard fōr. ⁊ hē wæs Lēodul

   And in the same year, Emperor Otto of Rome went to Greece, and there he encountered a great army of Saracens who had come up from the sea, and intended to then go make war against the Christian people; and so the emperor then fought against them. There was great slaughter on each side, and the emperor took control of the battlefield. Nevertheless, he was very fatigued, and so thence turned around

   The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

Declension