heaðu-fýr
Fierce, hostile fire
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Fierce, hostile fire, Beo. Th. 5037; B. 2522: 5087; 2547
heaðu-geong
Young and active in battle
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Young and active in battle(?) [Hickes reads hearo], Fins. Th. 3; Fin. 2
heaðu-lác
Battle
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Battle, Beo. Th. 1172; B. 584: 3952; B. 1974
heaðu-rinc
A warrior
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A warrior, Judth. 11; Thw. 24, 9; Jud. 179: Thw. 24, 29; Jud. 212: Beo. Th. 745; B. 370: 4923; B. 2466: Cd. 154; Th. 193, 4; Exod. 241: Bt. Met. Fox 9, 89; Met. 9, 45
heaðu-glemm
A wound got in fight
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A wound got in fight, Exon. 114 a; Th. 438, 6; Rä. 57, 3
Linked entry: glemm
heáðu-líðende
Sea-faring
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Sea-faring, Beo. Th. 3600; B. 1798: 5902; B. 2955: Andr. Kmbl. 851; An. 426
heaðu-mǽre
Illustrious in war
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Illustrious in war, Beo. Th. 5596; B. 2802
heaðu-sceared
blade of a sword, ⬩ war-share
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In Beo. Th. 5650; B. 2829; according to Thorpe the reading of the MS. is scearede, other editors read scearde. In the former case may not the word be connected with scear [q. v. share in ploughshare] used here of the blade of a sword, heaðo-scear a war-share
heáðu-sigel
The sun
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The sun [the prefix seems to be used from seeingthe sun rise or set over the sea], Exon. 126 b; Th. 486, 17; Rä. 72, 16
heaðu-wælm
Fierce, intense heat
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Fierce, intense heat, Cd. 17; Th. 21, 14; Gen. 324: 149; Th. 187, 8; Exod. 148: Beo. Th. 165; B. 82: 5630; B. 2819: Andr. Kmbl. 3082; An. 1544: Elen. Kmbl. 1154; El. 578: 2607; El. 1305
heaðu-weorc
A work of war, a fight
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A work of war, a fight, Beo. Th. 5776; B. 2892
heaðu-steáp
Standing out prominently in battle
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Standing out prominently in battle [an epithet of the helmet], Beo. Th. 2494; B. 1245: 4312; B. 2153
slíþ-heard
Excessively hard ⬩ very fierce, savage ⬩ very hard, cruel
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Excessively hard of living things, very fierce, savage Slíþherde deór (the boar and the bear) Exon. Th. 344, 22; Gn. Ex. 177. of inanimate things, very hard, cruel Mé habbaþ hringa gespong slíþhearda sál síþes ámyrred the cruel chain has hindered me
ge-gealt
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Deut. 7, 12
heáh-setl
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Add: a seat of honour 'Ðé is leófre on ðisum wácum scræfum þonne ðú on healle heálic biscop sitte.' Ðá cwæð hé þæt hé wurðe nǽre ðæs heáhsetles, Hml. Th. ii. 146, 30. an official seat, of a king, a throne On héghseðel Godes in throno Dei, Mt.
heáh-cyning
A chief, great king, God
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On ða swýðran healfe ðæs heáhcyninges on the right hand of the great king [God], Shrn. 118, 9: Cd. 6; Th. 8, 14; Gen. 124. Ðæt wæs hildesetl heáhcyninges that was the war-seat [saddle] of the great king [Hrothgar], Beo. Th. 2083; B. 1039
heáh-fæder
A patriarch; also the great Father, i. e. God ⬩ God the Father ⬩ patriarca
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Seó stondeþ on ða swýðran healfe ðæs heáhfæder she stands on the right hand of the Father, Shrn. 118, 9: Rood Kmbl. 266; Kr. 134. Ðeodosius se wæs ðære hǽðenre héhfæder Theodosius who was the patriarch of the heathens, Nar. 40, 5.
bán-helm
A bone-helm ⬩ shield ⬩ ossium galea ⬩ clipeus
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A bone-helm, shield; ossium galea, clipeus, Fins. Th. 60; Fin. 30
cyne-helm
A crown, diadem ⬩ corona, diadema
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A crown, diadem; corona, diadema Cynehelm corona, diadema, Ælfc. Gl. 51; Som. 66, 14; Wrt. Voc. 35, 5: Morie B. 2166. Cynehealm diadema, Wrt. Voc. 74, 56. Wundon cynehelm of þornum, and asetton ofer hys heáfod plectentes coronam de spinis posuerunt super
Linked entry: helm