mer-wolf

See also: merwolf

English

Noun

mer-wolf (plural mer-wolves)

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