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bān-loca

bān-loca, m.n: a body; lit. ‘bone-locker’.

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hreðer-loca

hreðer-loca, m.n: breast; lit. ‘breast-locker’.

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weder-candel

weder-candel, f.n: the candle of the open air (‘weather-candle’), the sun.

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faroþ-hengest

faroþ-hengest, m.n: a ship; lit. ‘sea-horse’.

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segl-rād

segl-rād, f.n: the sail-road, the sea.

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sǣwudu

sǣwudu, m.n: a ship; literally, ‘sea-wood’. Noah’s Ark image from Coquinaria. If anyone knows more about it, please comment below.

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hēafod-gim

hēafod-gim, m.n: jewel of the head, i.e. the eye. Diagram of the seven tunics and three humours of the eye, with parts of the head.  Image: Illustration from a medical miscellany that includes the...

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brim-lād

brim-lād, f.n: the path of the sea, sea-way. Image from Manuscript Road Trip blog post: The beast of the sea encounters the dragon. From the Burckhardt-Wildt Apocalypse. France, ca. 1295. Detroit...

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friðo-webba

friðo-webba, m.n: a peace-weaver, an angel. Image: British Library, Add. MS 49598, f. 51v: Full-page miniature of the Three Marys at the Tomb, preceding the benediction for Easter Sunday. The...

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grēot-hord

grēot-hord, n.n: a repository of earth, i.e. the body. Occurs only 1x (Guthlac B).

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lind-plega

lind-plega, m.n: shield-play, battle. (“leend-pleh-ga”)

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dæg-candel

dæg-candel, f.n: day-candle, i.e. the sun. (“da-y-kahn-dell”) The Creation of the Sun and the Moon (detail), Master of Jean de Mandeville, in Historical Bible (Bible historiale; original sources in...

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bān-fæt

bān-fæt, n.n: the bone vessel, the body. (“bahn-vat”)

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wæfer-gange

wæfer-gange, f.n: a spider (lit. walker-weaver). (“wa-ver-gong-eh”) See the new spider post on Dēor-hord, a medieval and modern bestiary! A six-legged spider spins a web. Jacob van Maerlant’s Der...

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hwæles ēðel

hwæles ēðel (kenning): whale’s home, i.e. the sea. (“HWÆL-ess AY-thell”) Yunus (Jonah) and the whale, from Rashid al-Din’s Jami al-tawarikh (The Collection of Histories). Iran (Tabriz), c. 1314....

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hwæl-weg

hwæl-weg, m.n: the path of the whale, the ocean. (“hwæl- way”) Bestiary from northern France, 13th century. British Library, Sloane MS 3544, f. 42v. [bl.uk]For more on medieval whales, see my other...

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feorh-hord

feorh-hord, n.n: breast, soul, spirit, literally “life-hoard”. [FAY-orh-HORD]

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ȳþ-mearh

ȳþ-mearh, m.n: a wave-steed, a ship. [UTH-MAY-arh] This week’s Wordhord Wednesday post is on these “wave-horses”. See it on Patreon. Miniature of a whale and a sailing boat in a bestiary. England, S....

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mere-candel

mere-candel, f.n: the “sea-candle”, a kenning (metaphor) for the sun, a light that rises from or sets in the sea. [MAY-ray-KAHN-dell]

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flǣsc-hord

flǣsc-hord, n.n: the flesh-hoard, the body. [FLÆSH-hord] Bloodletting-Zodiac Man, from a collection of astronomical, calendrical, medical and philosophical texts compiled in England (1275-1540)....

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