Earfoþ-hylde

Selon le Dictionnaire Anglo-Saxon :

earfoþ-hylde

Substitute: earfoþ-hilde; adj. Hard to incline, that does not readily relinquish old habits:--Sé ðe on muneclicere drohtnunge earfoðhylde bið, and gyrnð ðǽra ðinga ðe hé on woruldlicere drohtnunge næfde, him geneálǽhð se hreófla Giezi, Hml. Th. i. 400, 1. earfoþ-hylde