Old English Dictionary Entry

Seonu-bend

Part of speech: (?), e; Related words: Thorpe's note on this passage, and his Northern Mythology, i. 86. For confusion of

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Definitions

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1 seonu-bend

f. A bond made of sinews (?) :-- Siððan hine Níðhád on néde legde swoncre seonobende (Grein would read -benne, which is more in accordance with the story in the Edda, that Völund had the sinews of the knees cut: benne and bende see ben). Exon. Th. 377, 19; Deór. 6.

Similar Words

-saca
-sacend
-sacung
-sagol
-sagun

Runic Inscription

ᛋᛇᚾᚢ-ᛒᛖᚾᛞ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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Works & Authors

Exon.: Exeter Book
Th.: Thorpe, Benjamin (editor)

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