Neowol-ness
Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - neowol-ness
According to the Old English Dictionary:
- neowol-ness
- Add: I. of a deep place on earen :-- Ofer þá stówe ufon wæs hangiende unmǽte stánclif, and eác beneoðan swíþe deóp neowelnys (niwolnys, niolnes, ) ginode in loco ingens desuper rupes eminet, et profundum subter praecipitium patet, Gr. D. 52, 18. Under þám ylcan eáhþyrle geonode mycclu neolnes (niwelnes, v.l. ), 159, 25. II. of the lower regions :-- Seó grániende neowelnys and seó forglendrede hell, Wlfst. 187, l. Þá átuge míne sáwle of neolnessum (ab inferis), Ps. Th. 29, 2. neowol-ness,neowolness