wār, n.n: seaweed; sand, strand. (WAHR)
Category Archives: water
sǣ-fōr
sǣ-fōr, f.n: a journey by sea, a voyage. (SA-vor)
Alexander the Great inside a glass barrel lit by two oil lamps. Miniature from Histoire du bon roi Alexandre. France, 14th century. [pinterest.co.uk]
flōd-wudu
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
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
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
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
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
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
ȳþ-lād, f.n: a way across the waves. [UTH-LAHD]
winter-wille
winter-wille, f.n: a spring that can be used in winter (?). Definition uncertain. [WIN-ter-WIL-leh]
