Old English

Noun

mundgripe m

1. (poetic) grasp, hand-grip
   • c. 700, Beowulf, 379-381

     [...] þyder tō þance, þæt hē þrtiges
     manna mægencræft on his mundgripe
     heaþorōf hæbbe. Hine hālig God [...]

     Francis Barton Gummere translation:

     [...] thither for thanks, —he has thirty men’s
     heft of grasp in the gripe of his hand,
     the bold-in-battle. Blesséd God [...]

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