bricun

Old French

Alternative forms

• bricon (France)

Noun

bricun oblique singular, m (oblique plural bricun, nominative singular bris, nominative plural bricun)

1. (early in France, Anglo-Norman) madman
   • 11th century, Chanson de Roland, 221-222 :

     E dist al Rei : « Ja mar crerez bricun, / Ne mei ne altre, se de vostre prod nun. [...] »

     (Ganelon speaks to Charlemaigne) And he said to the king, "You should never believe a madman: [believe] neither me nor anyone else, unless it is of your advantage. [...]"

Adjective

bricun m (oblique and nominative feminine singular brice)

1. (early in France, Anglo-Norman) mad; insane

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (bricon)
• bricun on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub