Grendel is referred to once in Beowulf as ‘thyrse’, line 426. From Wordnik.com. [Kings of Lindsey] Reference
The Old English word ‘thyrse’ or ‘thurse’ is obsolete in modern English but occasionally appears in place names, e.g. From Wordnik.com. [Kings of Lindsey] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Firedoglake » FDL Late Nite: Who’s Your Hero?] Reference
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 close in meaning to do duty for each other as the metre dictated. From Wordnik.com. [Old English gods and myths: Eotens] Reference
I could use ‘thyrse’ or a modernised version thereof, but that’s no more easily recognisable than ‘eoten’. From Wordnik.com. [Kings of Lindsey] Reference
To grace the frantic thyrse. From Wordnik.com. [The Hesperides & Noble Numbers: Vol. 1 and 2] Reference
Thy thyrse and bite the bays. From Wordnik.com. [The Hesperides & Noble Numbers: Vol. 1 and 2] Reference
Who with thy thyrse dost thwack us. From Wordnik.com. [The Hesperides & Noble Numbers: Vol. 1 and 2] Reference
Shake the thyrse, and bite the bays. From Wordnik.com. [The Hesperides & Noble Numbers: Vol. 1 and 2] Reference
Our thyrse for sceptre, and our bays for crown. From Wordnik.com. [The Hesperides & Noble Numbers: Vol. 1 and 2] Reference
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