Blód-dryncas

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - blód-dryncas

According to the Old English Dictionary:

blód-dryncas
Substitute: blód-drync, es; m. Blood-drinking, draught of blood :-- Þǽr wæs gesiéne þæt seó eorþbeofung tácnade þá miclan blóddryncas þe hiere mon on þǽre tíde tó forlét . . . merito dicatur tantum humanum sanguinem susceptura terra tremuisse, Ors. 4, 2; S. 162, 3. blod-dryncas
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