Wæl-wulf

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - wæl-wulf

According to the Old English Dictionary:

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Wæl-wulf
m. I. as an epithet of a warrior, a war-wolf, one who is as fierce to slay as is a wolf :-- Wódon wælwulfas, wícinga werod, Byrht. Th. 134, 38; By. 96. II. as an epithet of a cannibal, a fierce cannibal, one who preys on the dead like the wolf :-- Wælwulfas bánhringas ábrecan Jóhton, UNCERTAIN tólýsan líc and sáwle, and ðonne tódǽlan werum tó wiste fǽges flǽschoman, Andr. Kmbl. 297; An. 149. wæl-wulf
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