- þes wealstan,
wyrde gebræcon;
burgstede burston, brosnað enta geweorc.
Hrofas sind gehrorene,
hreorge torras, hrim geat
torras berofen, hrim on lime,...
- cover, hide’. Furthermore, the
Celtic words are
unrelated to
Germanic (< *
hrōfa- < *ḱrōpo-),
stemming instead from Proto-Celtic *krewo- ~ kruwo-, presumably...
