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OBJECT
BEFORE
CLAIM.
THE PRIMARY OBJECT WAS NOT CHECKED.
OED cites the Old English enemy or foe sense. The aligned Electronic Beowulf text was consulted, but the folio pixels for this separate occurrence were not directly inspected in this dossier.
Old EnglishOld English, source-reportedestablished
fēond
Beowulf line 101, enemy in hell
“fyrene fremman, feond on helle”
- WITNESS TYPE
- Source-reported corpus record
- YEAR
- 1000
- LOCATOR
- Beowulf 101
- REPOSITORY
- Not recorded
- SHELFMARK / OBJECT ID
- Not recorded
- FACSIMILE
- Not linked
- DIRECT INSPECTION
- No
- CONFIDENCE
- established
WORD DOSSIERfēond ↗
CANONICAL FORM NODENODE 1166 ↗
01
BIBLIOGRAPHIC PROVENANCE
THE SOURCE BEHIND THE CLAIM
- TITLE
- Oxford English Dictionary — fiend, n., revised 2026
- AUTHOR
- Oxford English Dictionary Editors
- YEAR
- 2026
- PUBLISHER
- Oxford University Press
- SOURCE TYPE
- historical dictionary
- CITATION KEY
- oed-fiend-2026