Brim-wylf

Old English Dictionary Entry

Brim-wylf

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: e; Related words:

Definitions

1 brim-wylf

f. [brim, wylf a she-wolf] A sea-wolf; marina lupa. An epithet applied to Grendel's mother :-- Hine seó brimwylf abroten hæfde the sea-wolf had destroyed him, Beo. Th. 3202; B. 1599. brim-wylf

Runic Inscription

ᛒᚱᛁᛗ-ᚹᚣᛚᚠ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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