māl-sweord

Posted on December 1, 2017 by Hana Videen

māl-sweord, n.n: a sword with inlaid ornament. [MALL-SWEH-ord]

Viking sword, 800-900; pattern-welded iron inlaid with silver wire. Metropolitan Museum of Art. Photo by Neil R (@IslesPunkFan), 2010: CC BY-NC 2.0. [flickr.com]

æl-ceald

Posted on November 30, 2017 by Hana Videen

æl-ceald, adj: all cold, most cold. [ÆL-CHEH-ald]

singan

Posted on November 29, 2017 by Hana Videen

singan, str.v: to sing, recite, relate musically or in verse; to compose verse, narrate; to sing about, recite or compose a poem about something. (SING-gahn / ˈsɪŋ-gan)

This week’s Wordhord Wednesday post is ‘the wonderful wave-roamer’. Read/hear it on Patreon.

wundor-līc

Posted on November 28, 2017 by Hana Videen

wundor-līc, adj: wondrous, exciting admiration or surprise. (WUN-dor-leech / ˈwʌn-dɔr-liːtʃ)

gāt

Posted on November 27, 2017 by Hana Videen

gāt, f.n: a she-goat. (GAHT / ˈgaːt)

Wild goats grazing. The Rochester Bestiary. South-Eastern England (Rochester?), c. 1230-14th century. British Library, Royal MS 12 F XIII, f. 20v. [bl.uk]

wlite-scēawung

Posted on November 26, 2017 by Hana Videen

wlite-scēawung, f.n: a word used to translate ‘Zion’, the biblical place name. Literal meaning is ‘beauty-contemplation’ or ‘glory-contemplation’. [WLIT-eh-SHAY-ah-wung]

līðend

Posted on November 25, 2017 by Hana Videen

līðend, m.n: a traveller, sailor. [LEE-thend]

A siren pulls a sailor from a boat by the hair, while another sailor stops his ears to avoid hearing the siren’s song, with a centaur holding a bow below. Hugh of Fouilloy’s Aviarum/Bestiary. N. France, 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 13th century. British Library, Sloane 278, f. 47r. [bl.uk]