Bæddel And Bædling
and are Old English (Anglo-Saxon) terms theorised to refer to non-normative sexual or gender categories. They occur in only five medieval Glossary, glossaries and penitentials (guides for religious penance). Scholars debate their exact meanings (and their distinction, if any), but both are linked to effeminacy and adultery. appears in one glossary, where it glosses "hermaphrodite" and a "man of both sexes", while glosses an "effeminate" or "soft" person. The ''Oxford English Dictionary'' states that may be related to the English adjective "bad"; scholars have proposed that the word may share a root with both and . The Old English translation of the medieval penitential ''Paenitentiale Theodori'' distinguishes men from ; it describes men having sex with other men or with as separate offences, and states that must atone for having sex with other . The term has been variously conjectured to refer to people Sex assignment, assigned male at birth who exhibited gender-nonconf ...
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