Wyrm-sele

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

According to the Old English Dictionary:

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wyrm-sele
m. A serpent-hall [cf. the hall, thick swarming now, With ... scorpion, and asp ... Cerastes horned, hydrus, and elops drear, And dipsas, Par. Lost 10, 522 sqq.], a place where there are serpents (hell) :-- Ne þearf hé hopian ðæt hé þonan móte, of ðam wyrmsele, Judth. Thw. 23, 13; Jud. 119.

Related words: wyrm-geard. wyrm-sele

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