A wandering monk. One of the four kinds of monk, as described in an AS version of the rule of St Benedict. The widscrithul was the monk who spent his life wandering about, staying in different *cells for a few days at a time, always wandering, 'given up to pleasure and the evils of gluttony, and worse in all ways than the self-appointed ones', i.e. the *sylfdema. -
Dictionary of Medieval Terms and Phrases. Christopher Coredon with Ann Williams.