A Consolidated Library of Anglo-Saxon Poetry

Word Explorer: neck

Number of occurrences in corpus: 18

A.4.2 106 e carved / halfway through his neck, so that he lay in a stupor, /
AETHILVVALD.Sator.Octo 11 bending the curved nape of my neck / and the top of my head right
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 122 ritories. / And now with bended neck there came under his kingly y
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 180 round its collar as its erect neck swelled. / With chest puffed up
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 611 ore a ruby necklace round her neck, / such was the splendid appeara
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1055 venom / and he did not bow the neck by fawning at shrines. / Then t
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1211 is arms / and likewise tied his neck to his twin legs, / look: sudde
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1432 ignant coils, / raised its dark neck with its pestilential poison.
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1715 d, / embracing his bright-white neck with her gorgeous arms. / Even
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1836 , / but the Sicilians bound his neck in tight chains / and tying hi
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1874 not shirk from submitting her neck to the blade / or from pouring
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2332 / to be bound by a knot at the neck with a weight of rock, / so tha
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 183 a; submerged up to his marble neck, / in the waves Cuthbert spends
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 405 e, do you seethe with swollen neck? / Put away blind fury, and c
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 240 t Aegilbert placed the chosen neck under the yoke he had sought,
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 326 remains, / may I not allow my neck to be blessed with polluted d
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 350 yrian purple, / and his shining neck was adorned with a rose-colou
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 916 you have taken caskets from a neck worthy of reverence: / now, ab