Mæðel-word

Selon le Dictionnaire Anglo-Saxon :

es;

mæðel-word

n. A word used itt a formal address:--Þegn Hróðgáres meðelwordum frægn (of the question put by the coast-guard to Beowulf on his landing), Beo. Th. 478; B. 236. mæðel-word