swinsung-cræft, m.n: music. (SWIN-zung-KRAFT)
A rabbit plays the pipe-organ as a dog works the bellows. The Macclesfield Psalter. England (East Anglia), c. 1330-1340. Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, MS 1-2005, f. 15r. [fitzwilliam.cam.ac.uk]
hweogul, n.n: a wheel. [HWAY-oh-gull]
Fortune turns her wheel in Boethius’s Consolation de philosophie. Art by Coëtivy Master (Henri de Vulcop?). France (Paris), c. 1460-1470. Los Angeles, The J. Paul Getty Museum, MS. 42, fol. 1v. [getty.edu]
weorold-cræft, m.n: a secular (worldly, non-religious) craft or art. [WAY-oh-rold-KRAFT]
firen-cræft, m.n: a sinful craft, wickedness. [FIR-en-KRÆFT]
gliw-bēam, m.n: a glee-beam, timbrel, tabret. [GLIW-BAY-ahm]
The Maastricht Hours. Netherlands (Liège), 1st quarter of the 14th century. British Library, Stowe MS 17, fol. 129r. [bl.uk]
chor-glēow, n.n: a musical dance, dance. [KHOR-GLAY-oh]
Roman de la Rose, by Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun. France (Paris), c. 1320-c. 1340. British Library, Royal MS 19 B XIII, f. 10v. [bl.uk]
hearpe, f.n: a harp. [HAY-ar-peh]
The Maastricht Hours. Netherlands (Liège), 1st quarter of the 14th century. British Library, Stowe MS 17, fol. 92v. [bl.uk]
meter-cræft, m.n: the art of versification. [MEH-ter-CRÆFT]
drēam-cræft, m.n: the art of music. [DRAY-om-CRÆFT]
Leaf from a Dominican Antiphoner. N. France, 1st quarter of the 14th century. British Library, Yates Thompson 25, fol. 1r. [bl.uk]
smiþ-cræft, m.n: smith-craft, the craft or art of the worker in metal or wood. [SMITH-KRÆFT]
The legend of Sigurd from the Norse Edda: Regin (Sigurd’s foster father) and his helper forge a sword on an anvil. Wood panel from a church in Setesdal, Norway, 12th century. [hicockalorum.tumblr.com]
