Cwelm-bǽrnys

Nach dem Altenglischen Wörterbuch:

-nyss, e;

cwelm-bǽrnys

f. [cwealm, cwelm death, destruction] Destruction, ruin, deadliness, mortality; pernicies, mortalitas :-- Cwelm-bǽrnyss pernicies, Ælfc. Gr. 12; Som. 15, 52. Þurh myrran is gehíwod cwelmbǽrnys úres flǽsces by myrrh is typified the mortality of our flesh, Homl. Th. i. 118, 3. cwelm-bærnys