þurh-wadan

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þurh-wadan, str.v: to pass through; (of a weapon) to pierce through, penetrate. (thur’h-WA-dahn / θʌrx-ˈwa-dan)

Medieval manuscript illustration of a legless creature passing through a tower, its pointy-eared head and long neck on the right side, its shrivelled brown skin coming off on the left side where its tail is.
A snake in the Worksop Bestiary; England (Lincoln or York?), c. 1185; Morgan Library & Museum, MS M.81, f. 87v. [themorgan.org]

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