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ring-hoard

noun

Etymology

Literary calque of Old English bēah hord, from bēah (“ring”) + hord (“hoard”).

  1. derived from bēah hord

Definitions

  1. A large hoard of treasure.

    • The slayer also lay, The terrible earth-drake deprived of life, Oppressed by bale: the ring-hoard longer The twisted worm, might not control.
    • Then the vault was rifled, the ring-hoard robbed, and the wretched man had his request granted.
    • In Western Scandinavia [...] both hacksilver and ring hoards seem to occur later, and to belong on the whole to the 10th and 11th centuries.

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