A Consolidated Library of Anglo-Saxon Poetry

Word Explorer: chains

Number of occurrences in corpus: 15

ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 405 one could constrain him with chains / or contain the wretch’s wi
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 823 tried to bind him with cruel chains. / But he could not, for he was
ALCVIN.VmetWillibrord 27 7 he body of the mighty bishop. / Chains break off by themselves from
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 546 with strong shackles and iron chains; / previously the dragon, breath
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1210 holy man: / the tight bonds of chains fastened his arms / and likewis
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1481 Iron bonds bound him in tight chains / since he raved out of his min
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1533 ayers would shatter the enemy chains, / so that a way through the fie
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1836 lians bound his neck in tight chains / and tying his arms deservedl
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2819 hy servants / and to loosen the chains of harm from the guilty who
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 495 / until I am released from the chains and prison of the flesh’. /
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 826 bishop release him from these chains. / He rises and, strengthened
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 540 anting to bear any longer the chains of the English, / to which the
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 548 id waste a wide area, and the chains were again placed on their ne
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 869 loosened his tightly fastened chains. / With immoderate weeping he so
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 899 a worthy manner the quivering chains fled from his feet, / which wer