Wripen-hilt
Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - wripen-hilt
According to the Old English Dictionary:
- wripen-hilt
- adj. Having a kilt bound round [' In some specimens of swords the handles are wound round with gold wire,' Worsaae's Primeval Antiquities, p. 29] :-- Ðæt sweord, írena cyst, wreoþenhilt and wyrmtáh, Beo. Th. 3400 ; B. 1698. wripen-hilt