The Deorhord: An Old English Bestiary MG_Gift_Guide Winner of the 2020 Crawford

Winner of the 2020 Crawford Award

a detective begins to unearth the dark secrets of a community gone silent

Discover hidden waterfalls

with additional passages about virtue

The Deorhord: An Old English Bestiary MG_Gift_Guide Winner of the 2020 CrawfordAn entertaining tour of Old English words for animals, from the author of The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old English Many of the animals we encounter in everyday life, from pets and farm animals to the wild creatures of field and forest, have remained the same since medieval times. But the words used to name and describe them have often changed beyond recognition, starting with the Old English word for animal itself, deor (pronounced DAY or). In The