Hran

Nach dem Altenglischen Wörterbuch:

hran

Add: a small kind of whale:--Hran, hron, horn ballena, Txts. 44, 146. Hran oððe hwæl, Wrt. Voc. ii. 10. Manducat unumquodque animal in mari alterum. Et dicunt quod vii minoribus saturantur maiores, ut vii fiscas sélaes fyllu, sifu sélas hronaes fyllu, sifu hronas hualaes fyllu (seven seals are plenty for a smaller whale, and seven smaller whales are plenty for one of the larger kind), An. Ox. 54, § 1. Sǽfisce l hrane ballená (grandior), 23, 48. Hran ballenam, coetum, 7, 47: ballenam, 4, 16. Ran balenam .i. diabolum (crudelissimam superbiae balenam virtutum devoratricem, Ald. 10, 26. Cf. the poem on the whale), 668. hran