3 thoughts on “beorn-þrēat”

1. Great compound. Beorn, favored by Tolkien, is quite mysterious. Isn’t Our Lord a beorn in the Rood? I’ve seen speculation that it is cognate with bear.

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   • Interesting…do you remember where that appears–either Lord as “beorn” or cognate with bear theory?

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2. Dream of the Rood, l. 42. (see my translation in Sewanee Theological Review, Pentecost 2014); Stephen Barney, Word-Hoard, Yale U.P. 1977, p. 55.

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