Hweorfa

Selon le Dictionnaire Anglo-Saxon :

hweorfa

Add: I. a joint, vertebra, popliies et genua, Lch. i. lxxiv, 20. II. the whorl of a spindle, v. hweorf :-- Hwyorfa vertigo (among words connected with spinning). Wrt. Voc. i. 59, 23. ¶ Here probably belong the two glosses:-- Hweorfan molam, Wrt. Voc. ii. 94, 1: 57, 13. The passage glossed is: Si parcae . . . mortale vitae fusaque rotante minantur, quod vehet in collo tereti vertigine molem, Ald. 175, 35. To vertigine, UNCERTAIN not to molem (wrongly written molam) must belong the gloss, hweorfan. hweorfa

Mots connexes: hweorf-bán :-- Þá hweorfan and ðá cneó