Hran-fisc

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - hran-fisc

According to the Old English Dictionary:

hran-fisc
Add: The word seems used of some other fish than the whale in the following:--Hié of ðǽm neáhéum and merum þá hronfiscas úp tugon, and þá ǽton, and be þǽm lifdon, and ꝥ wæter æfter druncon (this very imperfectly translates the Latin, which is: Hii assueti fluminibus necnon et stagno quum terris erant crudo pisce tantummodo et aquarum haustu viventes), Nar. 22, 9. hran-fisc
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