Hion

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - hion

According to the Old English Dictionary:

l. hión,

hion
and add: cf. Heáfodwunde tó bóte . . . Gif ꝥ úterre bán bið þyrel, Ll. Th. i. 92, 15. [Liebermann proposes to read hionne with the meaning 'membrane'. Cf. Dan. hjerne-hinde membrane of the brain, and see note on the word in Ll. Th.] hion
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