glebe

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Then from the ship leaped the Prince, far-darting Apollo, like a star at high noon, while the gledes of fire flew from him, and the splendour flashed to the heavens. 

From The Homeric Hymns A New Prose Translation; and Essays, Literary and Mythological by Lang, Andrew

The third part shall be, Accursèd sinners, in the flood's abyss, False folk-haters, fastened in flame1300 For deeds of old, gang of the godless In grip of the gledes.

From Elene; Judith; Athelstan, or the Fight at Brunanburh; Byrhtnoth, or the Fight at Maldon; and the Dream of the Rood Anglo-Saxon Poems by Garnett, James Mercer

And, by waiting with patience, the gledes did take two more.

From A Boy's Ride by Zollinger, Gulielma

In the Lacnunga, for sick cattle we find—“Take the wort, put it upon gledes and fennel and hassuck and ‘cotton’ and incense.

From The Old English Herbals by Rohde, Eleanour Sinclair