ring-hoard

English

Etymology

Literary calque of Old English bēah hord, from bēah (“ring”) + hord (“hoard”).

Noun

ring-hoard (plural ring-hoards)

  1. A large hoard of treasure.
    • 1887, Albert H[arris] Tolman, The Style of Anglo-Saxon Poetry‎[1], page 15:
      The slayer also lay,
      The terrible earth-drake deprived of life,
      Oppressed by bale: the ring-hoard longer
      The twisted worm, might not control.
    • 1999, Seamus Heaney, Beowulf, London: Faber and Faber, page 72:
      Then the vault was rifled,
      the ring-hoard robbed, and the wretched man
      had his request granted.
    • 2007, Dagfinn Skre, Means of Exchange: Dealing with Silver in the Viking Age, Oslo: Aarhus University Press, page 207:
      In Western Scandinavia [...] both hacksilver and ring hoards seem to occur later, and to belong on the whole to the 10th and 11th centuries.
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