wræcsiþ

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

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

Strong a-stem:

• Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller (1898) “wræc-síþ”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.