Nirwan
Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - nirwan
According to the Old English Dictionary:
nirwian ;
- nirwan
- p. de, ode To constrain, repress, blame, threaten :-- Moyses onféng scínendum wulderhelme forðon hé symle ða nyrugde ðe God oferhogodan Moses received a shining crown, because he ever repressed those that despised God, Blickl. Homl. 49, 12. Hí fýrene tangan him on handa hæfdon and mé nyrwdon and mé tóbeótodan ðæt hí mé mid ðám gegrípon woldon forcipibus igneis quos tenebant in manibus, minitabantur me comprehendere, Bd. 5, 12 ; S. 628, 43. Ne ne on ðínum yrre ne nyrwa ðú mé neque in ira tua corripias me, Ps. Spl. 37. 1.