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mer-wolf en · NOUN
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(alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of merwolf.
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.
1905, The Mount Holyoke, page 44: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.
1921, Charles Scott Moncrieff, Widsith, Beowulf, Finnsburgh, Waldere, Deor: Done into Common English after the Old Manner, pages 53–54: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!
1918, Dorothy L. Sayers, Catholic Tales and Christian Songs, published 2008, page 57:Above them, more beasts frolicked in the sea: mer-unicorns, mer-dragons, mer-wolves, mer-elephants, even, Megan saw with astonishment, a mer-sphinx.
1994, Patricia A. McKillip, Something Rich and Strange, published 2015, →ISBN:
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