Eorþ-styrung

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - eorþ-styrung

According to the Old English Dictionary:

-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
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