Hweorfa
Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - hweorfa
According to the Old English Dictionary:
- hweorfa
- Add: I. a joint, vertebra, popliies et genua, Lch. i. lxxiv, 20. II. the whorl of a spindle, v. hweorf :-- Hwyorfa vertigo (among words connected with spinning). Wrt. Voc. i. 59, 23. ¶ Here probably belong the two glosses:-- Hweorfan molam, Wrt. Voc. ii. 94, 1: 57, 13. The passage glossed is: Si parcae . . . mortale vitae fusaque rotante minantur, quod vehet in collo tereti vertigine molem, Ald. 175, 35. To vertigine, UNCERTAIN not to molem (wrongly written molam) must belong the gloss, hweorfan. hweorfa