Heoru-drync

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - heoru-drync

According to the Old English Dictionary:

heoru-drync
Substitute: Drinking by the sword, a wound. [For the personifying of the sword and its drinking of blood when making a wound cf. such passages as : Gladius Domini repletus est sanguine, Is. 34, 6. Qui prohibet gladium suum a sanguine, Jer. 48, 10] :-- Hréðles eafora hiorodryncum swealt (cf. wundum sweltan, By. 293) bille gebeáten, B. 2358. heoru-drync
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