un-weder, n.n: bad weather, tempest. (“oon-WAY-dair”)
Dante’s Divina Commedia, a scene from Canto VI, the third circle (rain, hail, wind, snow), where Virgil flings earth into the jaws of Cerberus. Tuscany, 1440s. British Library, MS Yates Thompson 36, f. 11r. [blogs.bl.uk]
ap-flōd, m.n: the low tide. (“op-flohd”)
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īs-gebind, n.n: a bond of ice. (“ees-yeh-beend”) Winter ȳðe belēac īsgebinde. Winter locked up the wave with icy bond.
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gicel-stān, m.n: a piece of ice, hailstone. (“yee-chell-stahn”)
īs, n.n: ice; the name of the rune ᛁ = i. (“ees”)
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winter-burna, m.n: a stream that is full in winter (?), a torrent. (“ween-tair-boor-nah”)
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swift-ryne, m.n: a swift course, rapid running of water. (“sweeft-ruh-nay”)
wæd, n.n: ford, shallow water, water that may be traversed; (poetic) a body of water, sea. (“wadd”)
A boy, having been pushed off London Bridge by cattle, is rescued by rivermen on the Thames. John Lydgate’s Lives of Saints Edmund and Fremund. England (Bury St Edmunds?), between 1461 and c. 1475. British Library, MS Yates Thompson 47, f. 94v. [bl.uk]
be-sencan, wk.v: to sink, plunge, submerge, drown. (“beh-sen-kan”)
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Further information from Kazutomo Karasawa’s The Old English Metrical Calendar (Menologium) (Cambridge, 2015):
þænne embe eahta niht / and feowerum þætte fan Gode / besenctun on sægrund sigefæstne wer, / on brime haran, þe iu beorna fela / Clementes oft clypiað to þearfe.
—The Old English Metrical Calendar (Menologium), lines 210b-214
Then it is after eight and four nights that people hostile to God drowned the victorious man on the seabed, in the grey sea, to whom many men often pray, in advance (of his feast), to Clement, as is needed.
—translation by K. Karasawa
Constantine and Methodius receiving the remains of Pope Clement I by the Black Sea. From The Menologion of Basil II (late 10th- or early 11th-century). Città del Vaticano, BAV, cod. Vat. gr. 1613, p. 204. [commons.wikimedia.org]
bædzere, m.n: a baptist, baptizer. For example, “Iohannes se bædzere” is John the Baptist. (“bad-zeh-reh”)
Meister des Benedictionale des Heiligen Aethelwold (975-980). [Wikipedia]
