mold-wyrm

mold-wyrm, m.n: an earthworm, a worm in the grave. [MOLD-WURM]

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Two worms rising out of the soil in Jacob van Maerlant’s Der Naturen Bloeme. Flanders, c. 1350. Hague, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, KB, KA 16, f. 136r. [bestiary.ca]

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