Orcen

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - orcen

According to the Old English Dictionary:

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orcen
a sea-monster :-- Ðanon untydras ealle onwócon, eotenas and ylfe and orcneas [orcenas (?). Grein reads orc-néas, with which compare orc-þyrs under orc] swylce gigantas, Beo. Th. 225; B. 112. [Cf. (?) Icel. orkn (örkn) a kind of seal.] orcen
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