Galan

According to the Old English Dictionary:

galan

Add: (I) of human speech, (a) in poetical or passionate expression :-- Se geonga ongann geómran stefne gehæfted for herige hearmleód galan, An. 1129 : 1344. Sorhleód galan to lament, Kr. 67 : Cri. 623. Gehyrde heó hearm galan (tell his woes) helle deófol . . . ' Wā mē forworhtum . . . , ' Jul. 629. (b) in incantation :-- Ic galdor-wordum gōl, Reim. 24. Þā drȳas mid langum onsangum hī gōlon on (hyre on gōlon, ), od ꝥ se deófol of hire ūt eóde diutius incantationi-bus agere malefici moliebantur, ut diabolus exkret, Gr. D. 73, 27. Galdor galende cantando (rumpitur anguis), Wrt. Voc. ii. 86, 66: 19, 6. (2) of the ery of a bird :-- Hrefen uppe gōl, El. 52. Siddan þū gehȳrde galan geomorne geác on bearwe, Bo. 22. (3) of a trumpet. Cf. singan:-- Hié bearhtm ongeáton gūdhorn galan, B. 1432. [v. N. E. D. gale.] v. ge-galan. galan

Related words: l.