lāð

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lāð, adj: hostile, malign, bearing hate toward another. (LAWTH / ˈlaːθ)

Medieval marginalia depicting an elephant with a trunk nearly the size of its entire body and a tower bearing three soldiers on its back facing off with a man who carries a shield and a giant sword.
Rothschild Canticles; Flanders or the Rhineland, c. 1300; Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, MS 404, f. 168v. [collections.library.yale.edu]

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