Wer-beám

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - wer-beám

According to the Old English Dictionary:

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wer-beám
m. A strong man, warrior :-- Ðá slóh mid hálige hand heofonríces weard werbeámas (the Egyptians in the Red Sea), wlance ðeóde, Cod. Th. 208, 20; Exod. 486. Cf. the epithets derived from words denoting trees which are applied to men in Icelandic poetry.

Related words: Corpus Poeticum Boreale, ii. 476. wer-beam

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