flōd-wudu, m.n: flood-wood, a ship. (FLOAD-wuh-duh)
Louis IX sailing off on his second crusade, from the Chroniques de France ou de St Denis. France (Paris), after 1332 and before 1350. British Library, Royal 16 G. vi, f. 437v. [blogs.bl.uk]
sǣ-ælfen, f.n: a sea-elf, sea-nymph. (SA-al-ven)
The Rutland Psalter. England, c. 1260. British Library, Add MS 62925, f. 57r. [bl.uk]
sǣ-burh, f.n: a maritime town. (SÆ-burh)
A man riding on a donkey, head in hand, across a bridge, as a personification of Idleness (Peresse). The Dunois Hours. Central France (Paris), c. 1440 – c. 1450 (after 1436). British Library, Yates Thompson 3, f. 162r. [bl.uk]
wæter-sēaþ, m.n: a water-pit, well, reservoir. [WÆ-ter-SAY-ath]
This week’s Wordhord Wednesday post is on sea-candles. Read it on Patreon.
Medieval water well at the Qala Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum in Baku, Azerbaijan. Photo by Urek Meniashvili on Wikimedia Commons CC-BY-SA-3.0. [commons.wikimedia.org]
mere-candel, f.n: the “sea-candle”, a kenning (metaphor) for the sun, a light that rises from or sets in the sea. [MAY-ray-KAHN-dell]
mere-hūs, n.n: a sea-house (Noah’s ark). [MEH-reh-HOOS]
This week’s Wordhord Wednesday post is about wer-genga, a stranger in a strange land. Read it on Patreon.
Noah’s ark in La Somme le Roi by Frère Laurent of Orleans (1295). Bibliothèque nationale de France, Mazarine MS 870, fol. 103r. [gallica.bnf.fr]
ȳþ-lād, f.n: a way across the waves. [UTH-LAHD]
winter-wille, f.n: a spring that can be used in winter (?). Definition uncertain. [WIN-ter-WIL-leh]
īs-mere, m.n: a mere covered with ice. [EEZ-MEH-reh]
This week’s Wordhord Wednesday post is on Boethius’s ice-mere. Read it on Patreon.
gicel, m.n: an icicle. [YICH-ell]
