Hell-sceaþa

According to the Old English Dictionary:

hell-sceaþa

Add: I. a fiend :-- þ UNCERTAIN hié ús sýn on fultume wið helsceaíum, Bl. H 209, 28. II. hell personified, the grave. Cf. hell; I. I :-- For ðon ná helsceaða andet ðé and ne deáþ herede quia non infernns confitebitur te neque mars laudabit te. Ps. Rdr. 277, 18. hell-sceaða,hell-sceaþa