Wyrm-geard

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - wyrm-geard

According to the Old English Dictionary:

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wyrm-geard
m. An enclosure full of snakes :-- Wyrmgeardas, atol deór monig,... blace nædran, Salm. Kmbl. 940; Sal. 469. [Icel. ormgarðr. Cf. in the story of Gunnar's fate in Atla kviða: Nú es sá ormgarðr yðr um folginn,

Related words: 68: í garð þann es skriðinn vas innan ormom, 121. See, too, the stories of the deaths of Ragnar Lodbrog and Roderick, the last Gothic king of Spain.] v. wyrm-sele. wyrm-geard

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