Eorþ-styrung

Secondo il Dizionario dell'Inglese Antico:

-stirung, e;

eorþ-styrung

f. An earth-stirring, earthquake; terræ mótus :-- Eorþstyrung fela burhga ofhreas . . . þreóttyne byrig þurh eorþ-styrunge afeóllon an earthquake has overthrown many cities ... thirteen cities fell through an earthquake, Homl. Th. i. 608, 27, 29: 244, 17. Micele eorþstyrunga beóþ gehwǽr great earthquakes shall be everywhere, i. 608, 18. Ðá wearþ mycel eorþstirung there was a great earthquake, Nicod. 15; Thw. 7, 17. eorþ-styrung