mer-wolf

See also: merwolf

English

Noun

mer-wolf (plural mer-wolves)

1. Alternative form of merwolf
   • 1905, The Mount Holyoke, page 44:

     Wild wind that beareth the spin-drift afar,
     Wild chant that telleth the doom of Asgar,
     Shriek ye, and wail ye, while shudd’ring doth sweep
     Serpent, his sea-horse, adown the great deep,
     Battling and mad like an eagle gone blind,
     Seeking the war-fleets, long sunken, to find ,
     Down to the arms of Queen Ran of the sea,
     Down to the sea-floor, where mer-wolves go free.

   • 1918, Dorothy L. Sayers, Catholic Tales and Christian Songs, published 2008, page 57:

     Well for the terrible mer-wolf, and the caves where the witch-wife lay
     Till we touched her brows where the fir-trees stand and all we witless wanderers wonne!

   • 1921, Charles Scott Moncrieff, Widsith, Beowulf, Finnsburgh, Waldere, Deor: Done into Common English after the Old Manner, pages 53–54:

     Bare then the mer-wolf,
     when to the bottom she came,
     The ringed Prince
     to her own place,
     So that he might not,
     for all his proud mind,
     Wield his weapons;
     for such wondrous things
     Swinked him in the sound,
     sea-deer many
     With worrying tusks
     his war-sark tare,
     Chased him the creatures.

   • 1994, Patricia A. McKillip, Something Rich and Strange, published 2015, →ISBN:

     Above them, more beasts frolicked in the sea: mer-unicorns, mer-dragons, mer-wolves, mer-elephants, even, Megan saw with astonishment, a mer-sphinx.