Hæfern
Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - hæfern
According to the Old English Dictionary:
- hæfern
- Substitute : hæfern (hæf sea, ærn (ræn-), ern house), hræfn (q. es; m. A crai, crab-shell (?) :-- Haebrn, hafaern cancer, Txts. 47, 379. Hefern (nefern, MS.), 108, 1106. Ostre ostrea, muxle geniscula, hæfern cancer, Wrt. Voc. i. 281, 63: ii. 13, 30: 16, 30. Hafern concern (? concha, cf. of muscellan de conca, ii. 75, 71), i. 291, 31. Haebern, habern, hafern nepa, Txts. 81, 1370. Hæfern, Wrt. Voc. ii. 60, 11. Crabba oððe hæfern, 61, 48; Hebernum choncis (= conchis), Txts. 114, 106. v. wæter-hæfern. hæfern