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'feolhearde' - Hough (2000) argues that this hapax legomenon should be translated as 'hardened by the file'. She refers also to H. Genuss's chapter 'The Old English Language' in The Cambridge Companion to Old English Literature (eds.) Godden and Lapidge (Cambridge (1991), pp. 48-49, where he observes that of the 47 compounds that only ever occur in poetry (i.e. not in prose) 16 are unique to Maldon.