Seonu-bend

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - seonu-bend

According to the Old English Dictionary:

(?), e;

seonu-bend
f. A bond made of sinews (?) :-- Siððan hine Níðhád on néde legde swoncre seonobende (Grein would read -benne, which is more in accordance with the story in the Edda, that Völund had the sinews of the knees cut: benne and bende see ben). Exon. Th. 377, 19; Deór. 6. v. preceding word. seonu-bend

Related words: Thorpe's note on this passage, and his Northern Mythology, i. 86. For confusion of

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