c. 1000. Ælfric, Saints’ Lives, xvii. (1885), I. 130. Sume men synd swa ablende þæt hi bringað heora lac to eorðfæstum stane.
1868. G. Stephens, Runic Mon., I. 199–200. No runic earthfast monument of any kind … has ever been found in any Saxon or German territory.
1869. R. B. Peacock, Gloss. Lonsdale Dial., Earthfast, said of a stone appearing on the surface but fast in the earth.
1881. A. Leslie, trans. Nordenskiöld’s Voy. Vega, I. ii. 97. It [the grave] consisted of a box … fixed to the ground with earthfast stakes and cross-bars, so that neither beasts of prey nor lemmings could get through.
