A Consolidated Library of Anglo-Saxon Poetry

Word Explorer: beast

Number of occurrences in corpus: 14

ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 591 , / and denied food to man and beast alike. / And a disastrous pile
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 341 birds and every kind of wild beast / pluck the sweet nourishment o
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 357 ndous maw; / and when the cruel beast choked down the pitch-black l
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 358 away the guts of the punished beast ruptured. / God always kept Dan
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 551 when Silvester had bound the beast with a choking collar, / cuttin
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 554 ng the happy citizens: / ‘The beast, which used to vent its fury h
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1438 ferently for the saints: / each beast, showing obedience, forgetting
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1565 e you a grave, / but the savage beast will tear you to pieces you w
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2001 limbs with grim bites. / But no beast dared to snatch at her sacred
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2436 incantation / so that the grim beast would gnaw at the saintly lim
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2534 rgin be keen to overcome this beast, / lest the voracious monster sh
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2743 fed the dark underworld. / That beast pulled down proud inhabitants
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 196 he raging, punishment-loving, beast of the Lord, rather than the
N.MiraculaNyniae 223 mighty bellow. / The bristling beast charged at them, its hairs sh