Hand-wyrm

Old English Dictionary Entry

Hand-wyrm

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: es; Related words:

Definitions

1 hand-wyrm

m. An insect supposed to produce disease in the hand :-- Handwyrm surio vel briensis vel sirineus, Ælfc. Gl. 24; Som. 60, 25; Wrt. Voc. 24, 28. Handwyrm ureius, Wrt. Voc. 288, 4. Hondwyrm, Exon. 111 b; Th. 427, 24; Rä. 41, 96: 125 b; Th. 482, 15; Rä. 67, 2. Við hondwyrmum, L. M. I, 50; Lchdm. ii. 122, 21. hand-wyrm

Runic Inscription

ᚻᚪᚾᛞ-ᚹᚣᚱᛗ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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