heolstor
Old English
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Germanic *hulistrą.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editheolstor n
- darkness, veil, covering
- 10th century, The Wanderer:
- siþþan ġeāra iū · goldwine mīn(n)e
hrusan heolstre biwrāh, · ond iċ hēan þonan
wōd winterċeariġ · ofer waþema ġebind,- since once, long ago, covered my goldfriend(s)
with darkness of earth, and poor I thereupon
traveled sad as winter over binding of waves,
- since once, long ago, covered my goldfriend(s)
- place of concealment
Declension
editDeclension of heolstor (strong a-stem)
Descendants
editReferences
edit- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “heolstor”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.