NOUN
- a dense flower cluster (as of the lilac or horse chestnut) in which the main axis is racemose and the branches are cymose
How To Use thyrse In A Sentence
- 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. Old English gods and myths: Eotens
- The Old English word ‘thyrse’ or ‘thurse’ is obsolete in modern English but occasionally appears in place names, e.g. Old English gods and myths: Eotens
- Grendel is referred to once in Beowulf as ‘thyrse’, line 426. Old English gods and myths: Eotens
- Michael Alexander translates ‘thyrse’ as ‘troll’ in Beowulf for the alliteration – “a trial against this troll”. Kings of Lindsey
