Slá-wyrm

Old English Dictionary Entry

Slá-wyrm

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: es; Related words:

Definitions

1 slá-wyrm

m. A slow-worm, blind-worm (cf. a slaworme cecula, Cath. Angl. 343), a kind of snake: -- Sláwyrm stellio, Wrt. Voc. i. 24, 25: 78, 60: spalangius, 24, 27: Hpt. Gl. 450, 26: regulus (cf. regulus est serpens, avis, et rex parvulus omnis, Wrt. Voc. i. 221, 9), Kent. Gl. 913: Engl. Stud. x. 40. Efete sláwyrm stellio, Ælfc. Gr. 9, 3 ; Zup. 35, 7 note. [Cf. Norweg. slo, orm-slo a blindworm: Swed. sla, orm-sla.] Cf. sleán to strike. sla-wyrm

Runic Inscription

ᛋᛚᚪ-ᚹᚣᚱᛗ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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