Usage examples (10)

• Grendel is referred to once in Beowulf as ‘thyrse’, line 426.
• The Old English word ‘thyrse’ or ‘thurse’ is obsolete in modern English but occasionally appears in place names, e.g.
• Myrct er uti, mal qvedth ec ocr fara uerig fioell yfir thyrse a thioed yfir badthir vidth komonc, edtha badthir tecr sa inn amatki ioetunn.
• It presumably influenced word choice in the original, since the poet uses a variety of words e.g. eoten, thyrse to refer to Grendel, so they were presumably sufficiently...